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Antony Gormley
Description
- Antony Gormley
- Small Hem 2
- cast iron
- 93 by 26.5 by 30cm.; 36 5/8 by 10 3/8 by 11 7/8 in.
- Executed in 2013.
Provenance
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Both the ‘Blockworks’ and ‘Small Blockworks’ use scale to act on the body-consciousness of the viewer. All of the works have an extended foot – the size of the foot is incorporated with the other blocks of the work to integrate a base into the language of the work.
Gormley states “..blockworks describe the space of the body in stacked masses that question its stability. I use the construction language of the built world; pillars and lintels, to evoke the inner condition of the body, treating the body less as a thing than a place.
There is a tension between a suggested symmetry and the actual articulation of a body, so that very slight variations in the alignment of the blocks can be read empathetically as an indication of the total body feeling. These pieces attempt to treat the body as a condition; being, not doing.”