Antony Gormley: Blind Light - Hardcover

Mitchell, W. J. T.; Stewart, Susan; Vidler, Anthony

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ISBN 10: 185332258X ISBN 13: 9781853322587

Verlag: Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2006

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Anthony Gormley is widely recognised as one of the most imaginative and original artists working in the UK today. This illustrated book accompanies the exhibition Anthony Gormley: Blind Light at The Hayward, the artist's first major showing in London in over 25 years.
Since the 1980s Gormley has focused consistently on the human figure, often using his own body as the starting point for works that explore our perception of space, architecture, and bodily presence.
Alongside specially commissioned photography of Gormley's major new projects, the book includes an original visual essay by the artist that elaborates his aesthetic preoccupations with images selected from his own photographic archive. Essays from leading writers and scholars Anthony Vidler, Susan Stewart and W. J. T. Mitchell provide a context in which to understand Gormley's new work, while an in-depth interview with The Hayward Director Ralph Rugoff and co-curator Jacky Klein reconsiders Gormley's place within contemporary culture and the history of art.

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This book is written by the authors: W.J.T. Mitchell, Susan Stewart and Anthony Vidler. Over the last 25 years, Antony Gormley, Britain's best-known living sculptor, has revitalised the human image through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation. This richly illustrated catalogue accompanies the Hayward exhibition in Spring 2007, Gormley's first major showing in a public gallery in London. The book includes photographs of new works specially commissioned for the Hayward, including the colossal Space Station, a 6m-high steel work built in direct response to the Hayward's architecture, and Event Horizon, an installation of around 30 sculptures sited on buildings across central London, spreading outwards from the Hayward and dramatically infesting the city skyline. The book also includes a visual essay by Gormley himself with his own photography and captions, showing a new side to the artist through his diverse sources of inspiration. An in-depth interview with Hayward Director Ralph Rugoff and Curator Jacky Klein takes a unique look at Gormley's place in contemporary culture and this history of art. The catalogue will be a rich, unique and intimate companion to the exhibition.

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• Verlag: Hayward Gallery Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 185332258X
• ISBN 13: 9781853322587
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160