Antony Gormley: The Body in & as Space

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Antony Gormley has spent the past three decades revitalizing the human figure in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and witness, agency and transformation. His work considers the body— solitary or en masse—as locus, by turns radiating its own energy or crushed under the weight of external pressures. Gormley's first major public installation in the United States, Event Horizon, saw 31 life-size figures inhabit the pathways and sidewalks of historic Madison Square Park as well as rooftops of the iconic architecture of New York City's Flatiron District. Gormley provides an illustrated overview of the history of his artistic practice, focusing on the changing ways he has sought to evoke human bodily presence.