Antony Gormley Published by Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
$60.00 USD
Born in 1950, the British artist Antony Gormley has tried to figure out the meaning of being alive using his own body as a guide, searching for meanings and origins of human physical form or presence.
His interest dwells upon the human internal processes and the relationship a person has with the surrounding environment whether in an individual or collective way. He touches physical and emotional levels connecting body and mind resulting thus in mental process that is not about the experience, but a form of experience in itself that is proposed to the spectator.
This makes a strong allusion to phenomenological ideas that lead us to a more subjective experience of space and time where human condition becomes the object itself instead of the context that is often thought as required for perceiving an object; and also where a space does not determines the beginning or the end of things.
For Gormley, it is important to start from the physical or bodily scope to attain a certain understanding of our own existence, opening up our conscience towards the idea that our presence goes beyond this skin that contains us, and that it is transmitted everywhere embracing a more significant contact between itself and the other.
He describes his concept of immersion as the way in which one relates to the space trying to get the spectator in a reflexive space that has no frontiers.
His ideas are captured through works of installation, sculpture, painting and drawing, using diverse materials such as bread, clay, even iron. His work positions him as a versatile artist and also as one of the most important of the world. Throughout is career he has had various influences such as Jackson Pollock, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Louis Khan.
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