April 22, 2014

ANTONY GORMLEY: STATES & CONDITIONS AT WHITE CUBE HONG KONG




ANTONY GORMLEY: STATES & CONDITIONS
WHITE CUBE HONG KONG
28 March 2014 – 3 May 2014




ANTONY GORMLEY: STATES & CONDITIONS
WHITE CUBE HONG KONG
28 March 2014 – 3 May 2014
White Cube is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Antony Gormley. With ‘States and Conditions, Hong Kong’, Gormley turns the entire gallery architecture into a psychic and physiological testing ground, using sculpture to animate space and activate the built environment. The exhibition is designed to resonate within the dense urban conditions particular to Hong Kong.
Dispersed tactically throughout the gallery and its connecting stairways and passages, the works in the exhibition invite the viewer’s active projection. Using dramatic changes in material and scale, both the body of sculpture and that of the viewer are included and excluded, made solid and dematerialised, allowed to displace space but also to identify with it.
The works invite circumnavigation and are catalysts for a choreography of movement. This process is initiated by the first work the viewer encounters, Ease (2012), which obstructs the main entrance from the street. This massive iron ‘Blockwork’ sculpture suggests an awkward occupation of the gallery architecture, and encourages an awareness of our position in space and time.
Murmur (2014) is a large-scale multiple ‘Space-Frame’ that fills the entire ground floor gallery. Derived from Form (the life-size crouching ‘Blockwork’ sculpture installed in the room directly above), its dimensions have been translated and expanded outwards by frames which challenge the containing architecture, allowing the viewer just a small passage between the surrounding walls and the void contained inside this ‘frame-field’.
Several new sculptures occupy the transitional spaces of the building. The half-scale 'Blockwork’, Small Prop III (2013), sits near to the front desk. Strain II (2011), a steel ‘Liner’ work, maps the space of a body using a singular unending loop installed high up on the stairwell wall. On the first-floor landing, a vertical and horizontal line made from the same steel bar as Strain II, bisects the space, interrogating the rules of architecture that physically order our environment. These linear works suggest a larger, hidden connective system such as a building’s plumbing or electrical circuitry but equally, recall the interconnected nervous system of a human body.
The upstairs gallery space is occupied by Form (2013), the crouching iron ‘Blockwork’ that is the seed-form for Murmur on the ground floor. Like Ease, the ‘Blockwork’ attempts to reconsider the body as a building; anatomy has been replaced by stacking, propping and cantilever, to form a static but dynamically unstable whole.
Two more ‘Liner’ works, Secure (2012) and Transfer (2011), are installed in the upper corridor and library. One animates the junction between wall and ceiling, and the other hangs like the exposed filament of a light bulb. These sculptures are interferences in the ordering of architectural space and the systems that consolidate it.
The final space of the exhibition includes three works that continue his investigation of body and space: Gut XIII (2010), a vertical ‘Blockwork’ that uses the architectural metaphor of the body as a building to full advantage, suggesting the body as an unstable high-rise with the potential of imminent collapse; Place II (2014), a life-size stainless steel ‘Expanded Framer’; and Reserve (2013), a hermetic, sealed tank that contains a similarly expanded body-space to Murmur, here made as a dark, invisible, still, sealed and waiting void.
Born in London in 1950, Antony Gormley’s solo shows include Middelheim Museum, Antwerp (2013); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo; Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia (2012); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2012); The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (2011); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2010); Hayward Gallery, London (2007); Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (1993) and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (1989). Major public works include Angel of the North (1998, Gateshead, England); Another Place (2005, Crosby Beach, England) and Exposure (2010, Lelystad, The Netherlands). He has also participated in major group shows such as the ‘Venice Biennale’ (1982 and 1986) and ‘Documenta 8’, Kassel, Germany (1987). Gormley won the Turner Prize in 1994, and was made a knight in the New Year’s Honours list 2014. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Royal Academy of Arts, London and since 2007 a British Museum Trustee.
You may reach Antony Gormley’s interview with Pierre Tillet and exhibitions news  at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris, Zentrum Paul Klee, Gallery Andersson Stockholm, , Xavier Hufkens Gallery and Middelheim Museum to click below links.
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2013/12/british-artist-antony-gormley.html
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2015/03/antony-gormley-second-body-at-galerie.html
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2014/09/antony-gormley-meet-at-gallery.html





SECURE 2012
6mm square key steel
Dimensions to be confirmed
Photo: Stephen White








TRANSFER 2011
6mm square key steel
13 3/4 x 111 x 17 11/16 in. (35 x 282 x 45 cm)
Photo: Stephen White




PHOTO BY VINCENT TSANG FROM WHITE CUBE




PHOTO BY VINCENT TSANG FROM WHITE CUBE




BARE 2014
Carbon and casein on paper
7 5/8 x 5 5/8 in. (19.4 x 14.3 cm) (unframed)
11 15/16 x 10 x 1 3/16 in. (30.4 x 25.4 x 3 cm) (framed)




BARE II - 2014
Carbon and casein on paper
7 9/16 x 5 9/16 in. (19.2 x 14.2 cm) (unframed)
11 15/16 x 10 x 1 3/16 in. (30.4 x 25.4 x 3 cm) (framed)




MANIFOLD VI - 2014
Carbon and casein on paper
7 9/16 x 5 11/16 in. (19.2 x 14.4 cm) (unframed)
11 15/16 x 10 x 1 3/16 in. (30.4 x 25.4 x 3 cm) (framed)
 




REST 2014
Carbon and casein on paper
7 1/2 x 5 9/16 in. (19 x 14.1 cm) (unframed)
11 15/16 x 10 x 1 3/16 in. (30.4 x 25.4 x 3 cm) (framed)




ROOM - 2014
Carbon and casein on paper
5 9/16 x 7 9/16 in. (14.1 x 19.2 cm) (unframed)
10 x 11 15/16 x 1 3/16 in. (25.4 x 30.4 x 3 cm) (framed)




PHOTO BY VINCENT TSANG FROM WHITE CUBE




MURMUR 2014
20 x 20 mm stained stainless steel tube and plastic spigots
165 9/16 x 169 5/16 x 161 13/16 in. (420.5 x 430 x 411 cm)
Photo: Stephen White




MURMUR 2014
20 x 20 mm stained stainless steel tube and plastic spigots
165 9/16 x 169 5/16 x 161 13/16 in. (420.5 x 430 x 411 cm)
Photo: Stephen White










ANTONY GORMLEY'S STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHS


























STRAIN II - 2011
6mm square section mild steel bar









ROOM II - 2014
Carbon and casein on paper
5 9/16 x 7 1/2 in. (14.1 x 19 cm) (unframed)
10 x 11 15/16 x 1 3/16 in. (25.4 x 30.4 x 3 cm) (framed)




STAND 2014
Carbon and casein on paper
7 9/16 x 5 9/16 in. (19.2 x 14.2 cm) (unframed)
11 15/16 x 10 x 1 3/16 in. (30.4 x 25.4 x 3 cm) (framed)




STAND II - 2014
Carbon and casein on paper
7 5/8 x 5 9/16 in. (19.3 x 14.2 cm) (unframed)
11 15/16 x 10 x 1 3/16 in. (30.4 x 25.4 x 3 cm) (framed)




ROOM III - 2014
Carbon and casein on paper
5 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (14.3 x 19 cm) (unframed)
10 x 11 15/16 x 1 3/16 in. (25.4 x 30.4 x 3 cm) (framed)






PROP III - 2013




PHOTO BY VINCENT TSANG FROM WHITE CUBE




SMALL PROP III - 2013
Cast iron
41 1/8 x 9 5/8 x 11 13/16 in. (104.5 x 24.5 x 30 cm)




PHOTO BY VINCENT TSANG FROM WHITE CUBE




GUT XIII - 2013
Cast iron
77 3/8 x 19 11/16 x 17 5/16 in. (196.5 x 50 x 44 cm)
Photo: Stephen White




PLACE II - 2014
5mm square section stainless steel bar
75 9/16 x 28 9/16 x 25 in. (192 x 72.5 x 63.5 cm)
Photo: Stephen White




RESERVE 2013
4mm Corten steel
90 3/8 x 35 3/8 x 32 13/16 in. (229.5 x 89.8 x 83.4 cm)
Photo: Stephen White






PHOTO BY VINCENT TSANG FROM WHITE CUBE




FORM 2013
Cast iron
28 3/4 x 21 5/8 x 24 13/16 in. (73 x 55 x 63 cm)






FORM 2013
Cast iron
28 3/4 x 21 5/8 x 24 13/16 in. (73 x 55 x 63 cm)
Photo: Stephen White




EASE 2012
Cast iron
12 3/8 x 59 7/16 x 28 1/8 in. (31.5 x 151 x 71.5 cm)
Photo: Stephen White




PHOTO BY VINCENT TSANG FROM WHITE CUBE




















ANTONY GORMLEY
 Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture since the 1960s through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions of where human being stands in relation to nature and the cosmos. Gormley continually tries to identify the space of art as a place of becoming in which new behaviours, thoughts and feelings can arise. Gormley's work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK and internationally with exhibitions at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Rio di Janeiro and Brasilia (2012); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2012); The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (2011); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2010); Hayward Gallery, London (2007); Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (1993) and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (1989). He has also participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale (1982 and 1986) and Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany (1987). Permanent public works include the Angel of the North (Gateshead, England), Another Place (Crosby Beach, England), Inside Australia (Lake Ballard, Western Australia) and Exposure (Lelystad, The
Netherlands). Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999 and the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture in 2007. In 1997 he was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE). He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, an Honorary Doctor of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity and Jesus Colleges, Cambridge. Gormley has been a Royal Academician since 2003 and a British Museum Trustee since 2007. Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950.
http://www.antonygormley.com/biography