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Antony Gormley: Space Out
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is delighted to host an exhibition of sculptures, which are part of Expansion Field by Antony Gormley in the Space Out exhibition at the Halle in Salzburg. Space Out continues the artist鈥檚 investigation of body and space, interrogating the body as place and architecture as the primary conditioner of our experience of space.
Antony Gormley explains: "Expansion Field (2014) tests the relationship between what something feels like and its external appearance. Each work is the result of a moment becoming objectified in a frame, one that has no absolute dimension. Space Out is an attempt to sculpt space itself. Each work isolates a space which, while becoming visible, isolates a darkness that is invisible." Space Out makes apparent, in the manner of an identity parade, the distinctions between various body positions and the incremental expansions of Expansion Field, inviting empathetic inhabitation.
The works are presented with a series of drawings that attempt to articulate, through flat fields of wash, the interrelationship of cells of space, related to both architecture and to the body 鈥� space that is both abstract and felt. In connection with the Second Body exhibition, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac published a catalogue with texts by American choreographer William Forsythe, art historian Guitemie Maldonado and a conversation between Antony Gormley and Hans Ulrich Obrist, discussing the installation Expansion Field.
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is delighted to host an exhibition of sculptures, which are part of Expansion Field by Antony Gormley in the Space Out exhibition at the Halle in Salzburg. Space Out continues the artist鈥檚 investigation of body and space, interrogating the body as place and architecture as the primary conditioner of our experience of space.
Antony Gormley explains: "Expansion Field (2014) tests the relationship between what something feels like and its external appearance. Each work is the result of a moment becoming objectified in a frame, one that has no absolute dimension. Space Out is an attempt to sculpt space itself. Each work isolates a space which, while becoming visible, isolates a darkness that is invisible." Space Out makes apparent, in the manner of an identity parade, the distinctions between various body positions and the incremental expansions of Expansion Field, inviting empathetic inhabitation.
The works are presented with a series of drawings that attempt to articulate, through flat fields of wash, the interrelationship of cells of space, related to both architecture and to the body 鈥� space that is both abstract and felt. In connection with the Second Body exhibition, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac published a catalogue with texts by American choreographer William Forsythe, art historian Guitemie Maldonado and a conversation between Antony Gormley and Hans Ulrich Obrist, discussing the installation Expansion Field.
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