Antony Gormley KUB 09.03

Antony Gormley
Another Place | 1997
Gusseisen
100 Elemente, je 189 × 53 × 29 cm
Installationsansicht, Cuxhaven
Fotografie: Helmut Kunde
bound, all are at rest, evoking different readings depending upon
which way they are orientated (for instance, the kneeling figure,
when fallen backwards, becomes an arch of hysteria; when inverted,
the mourning figure with its head bent becomes an acrobat).
Their weight is actively engaged. To quote Gormley: “The suspensions
are vital. Maybe there are two things identified here: Firstly,
bearing witness to torture and execution, the worst destiny of the
dispossessed. Secondly, through an arrested fall, activating a
gravitational field” (these forms have ten times the density of an
ordinary human body of the same size). As with the works Body and
Fruit, exhibited on the ground floor, the artist wishes to re-enforce
the connection between body and ground: “The use of this material
– iron – is associated with the deep underground that lies beneath
our feet and emphasizes that our body is on temporary loan from
the mass of matter constituting the planet and to which, in some
way, we give shape.”