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Perhaps best known for his large
outdoor sculpture Angel of the North,
Gormley has over the past 25 years
used his human form to explore our
existence in and relation to the world
around us. His sculptures range from
vast steel figures, to plaintive masses of
tiny clay figures, with his archetypal lifesize
body casts somewhere in between.
In 1994 he was awarded the Turner
Prize for his piece Field.
Throughout his career, Gormley has used his own body as the starting point to produce sculptures that investigate what it feels like to be in a body. He has developed syntax for the body in works that present it in various positions, standing, lying, crouching, and falling. He simultaneously explores the felt experience of being a body in the world; that is the body's relation to architecture and to nature.
"Being in the snow cave is so powerful
because of the relationship between the
made human world and the inherited
Earth. For me it has been a very precious
reinforcement of something I feel
deeply, of how we are a gnat on the
nose of a totally different universe." |
