Option TWO:
Antony Gormley: Critical Mass
Idea: One single, human sized
figure facing the wall (right lift side).
Reason: Gormley often uses his
own body as an archetype, as the starting point from which to explore the
relationships between bodies and the contexts which they inhabit, the
relationship between architectural and social space.
Looking at the documents from Azia Centre, Gormley was only
interested in this space, the most narrow and the most human space on the
floor plan. He would like to keep the other places empty to make more impact
with the single figure in the centre
Antony Gormley: Critical Mass
The artwork
A)Drop-off
/ North Center --
NOTHING
B)
B) Outdoor plaza area / South East Corner -- NOTHING
C) Lobby / North East Corner -- NOTHING
D) GF Lift Lobbies / End walls – left -- NOTHING
D) GF Lift Lobbies / End walls – right: ONE SINGLE FIGURE, 180cm
high, facing the wall
Material: cast iron (perhaps fiberglass/lead)
The Artist:
“Antony Gormley is an internationally acclaimed British artist who has
revitalized
the human figure in sculpture. He created some of
the created some of most ambitious and recognizable sculptures of the past
two decades.”
Gormley was born in London in 1950, studied at Trinity College,
Cambridge, and at the
Central School of Art, Goldsmiths College and the
Slade School of Art.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, the Serpentine
Gallery, the White
Cube, Tate Liverpool, Malmo Kunsthal, Irish Museum
of Modern art etc. He has participated in group shows such as the Venice
Biennale and Documenta 8,
He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 and the South Bank Prize in 1999.
Antony Gormley will hold a large exhibition (‘Asian Field’) this October
in Shanghai (organized
by the British council with the support of ShanghART
gallery). The exhibition be on 3000m2 and showing over 190’000 clay figures.
Similar exhibitions were staged previously in Guangzhou and Beijing and were
well covered in the news.
