Antony Gormley
Another artist that has influanced me heavily with his use of sculpture and the human figure.
Gormley creates striking sculptures, mainly out of metal from, casts of himself and is most famous for his public sculpture “angel of the north”.
Gormley describes his work as “an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we all live.”
His work attempts to treat the body not as an object but a place and in making works that enclose the space of a particular body to identify a condition common to all human beings. The work is not symbolic but indexical – a trace of a real event of a real body in time.
What i really love about Gormleys work is the fact he doesnt try to preserve the work once its built, he doesnt coat the metal or resore the peices every few years. he lets every mark stand out and lets the weather and nature take its course, transforming the sculpture over the years.
