Anthony Gormley Video:

Introduction to Anthony Gormley Video: Royal Academy of Arts London

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Gormley has worked as an artist for the last 40 years exploring his body in space.
His most famous piece of work, the Angel of the North in Gateshead, UK, 1998.

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Iron Baby - tiny metal baby, placed in the courtyard of the Royal Academy. Gormley talks about this object as a bomb, it has loads of destructive potential. He is interested in the way it will grow up and have a whole life, a cycle..
Matrix III, 2019 is very beautiful, it is apparently 97% re used, recycled metal. In the middle there is a space/ void which is the space of a European new build bedroom
Sleeping Field is a series of figures lying down. Gormley pushes the figures as far as he can take it. The are not glued or welded together, each block is laid onto another block. He is very invested in making things from industrial techniques
Huge body - enter through a foot, come out of a hand. The good thing is you don’t know whats going to happen, how to respond. You are not sure what he has laid out for you to experience.
Gormley talks about the body as a sight, as a place. He wants us to celebrate that.

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