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Antony Gormley: In Habit
We live in three places simultaneously: in the body, in the built world and on this earth. Increasingly, the second body (the built world), is the one that controls us the most. In devising a habitus in relation to a habitat, we reinforce 鈥� through habit 鈥� modes of behaviour that both protect and alienate us from the immediate life of the body and the cosmic life of the planet. 鈥� Antony Gormley (2020)
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris presents In Habit, an exhibition of new sculptures and drawings by Antony Gormley, centred around a space activating installation. Run II is a singular, continuous, square aluminium tube that fills the space of the main gallery in snaking 90-degree turns, the horizontal sections recalling heights familiar to us in our built environment: chair or table, worktop or shelf, door or ceiling. It uses the simplest means to activate and energise space, to create awareness of the way we move about in our constructed habitat.
Run II runs freely through the gallery and, by stepping through the work, our bodies can recognise and be liberated from the effects of what the Japanese call the 鈥榗ulture of the chair鈥�. Run II is, in Antony Gormley鈥檚 words, 鈥榓 zone of reflexivity in which light, air, volume and your displaced biomass are all tuned by the orthogonal yet free play鈥�. By encouraging you to be a figure in a ground, you become the viewed for other viewers and, in doing so, can use the space of art as an emergent field. Gormley invites us to pause and consider our dependency on this second habitat 鈥� the 鈥榖ody of architecture鈥� 鈥� and to create an awareness of the ground itself, to 鈥榚arth鈥� you.
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We live in three places simultaneously: in the body, in the built world and on this earth. Increasingly, the second body (the built world), is the one that controls us the most. In devising a habitus in relation to a habitat, we reinforce 鈥� through habit 鈥� modes of behaviour that both protect and alienate us from the immediate life of the body and the cosmic life of the planet. 鈥� Antony Gormley (2020)
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris presents In Habit, an exhibition of new sculptures and drawings by Antony Gormley, centred around a space activating installation. Run II is a singular, continuous, square aluminium tube that fills the space of the main gallery in snaking 90-degree turns, the horizontal sections recalling heights familiar to us in our built environment: chair or table, worktop or shelf, door or ceiling. It uses the simplest means to activate and energise space, to create awareness of the way we move about in our constructed habitat.
Run II runs freely through the gallery and, by stepping through the work, our bodies can recognise and be liberated from the effects of what the Japanese call the 鈥榗ulture of the chair鈥�. Run II is, in Antony Gormley鈥檚 words, 鈥榓 zone of reflexivity in which light, air, volume and your displaced biomass are all tuned by the orthogonal yet free play鈥�. By encouraging you to be a figure in a ground, you become the viewed for other viewers and, in doing so, can use the space of art as an emergent field. Gormley invites us to pause and consider our dependency on this second habitat 鈥� the 鈥榖ody of architecture鈥� 鈥� and to create an awareness of the ground itself, to 鈥榚arth鈥� you.
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