Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain),) Search this
Physical description:
269 pages chiefly color illustrations, portraits 30 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Expositions
Essay
Exhibition catalogs
Essays
Illustrated books
Illustrated works
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Catalogues d'exposition
Essais
Ouvrages illustrés
Place:
England
Angleterre
Date:
2019
20th century
21st century
20e siècle
21e siècle
Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 21-December 3, 2019
Contents:
Testing a World View / Martin Caiger-Smith -- Human Relations / Michael Newman -- Unravelling the Invisible Universe: Colourless, Soundless, Odourless and Painless but Real / Priyamvada Natarajan -- Seeing Inside the Outside / Jeanette Winterson -- Catalogue of Plates / with introductions by Martin Caiger-Smith -- Chronology / Helen Luckett
Summary:
Since the 1980s, when the English sculptor Antony Gormley (born 1950) first began casting figures from his own body in lead and iron, his principal concern has been opening up new artistic and social venues for the display of his work. In realizing his latest work, "Horizon Field," in Austria, the artist has installed 100 figures at an elevation of nearly 7,000 feet; the figures face every direction but never towards one another. The mountain landscape, with its beguiling mix of natural beauty, urbanity and the sociality of old valley communities, provides an ideal experimental field for Gormley's investigations into the relationship between nature and culture. Of this project, the artist said: "It asks basic questions: who are we, what are we, where do we come from and to where are we headed?" Photographs of the landscape installation are contextualized with images of the artist's previous works. Exhibition: Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (21.09.-03.12.2019)
