Publication

2011-12-16 - Fontanka Publishers

Language

English

Word Count

32,000 words, Guess

Page Count

128 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2011514727
  • Amazon1906257094

Classifications

  • LCCNB497.G65 A4 2011

Description

This book is made up of 10 classical sculptures from the Hermitage Museum, removed from their plinths and repositioned to share a raised floor with the viewer; and 17 highly abstracted body-forms by Antony Gormley. The idea is to juxtapose ancient, idealized statues with Gormley's more disinterested sculptures and see whether, in Gormley's work, the abstract language of Euclidean geometry can make a shelter for feeling, and whether, in the case of the classical works, demounting and putting the viewer on the same level as their original makers can re-establish them as made things. The interaction of the public, captured in documentary photographs, is key to a project that aims to show how classical marbles, Gormley's own sculptures and the living human visitors inhabit the same space and can converse with each other. Exhibition: Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, autumn 2011.

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