Antony Gormley

FEEL II, c. 2018

Carbon and casein on paper

15 x 11 in (38.1 x 27.94 cm)

$30,000

Gift of the artist

$30,000

Antony Gormley investigates the human body in relation to space and moments in time. Well known for his sculptures, installations, and public artworks, Gormley often utilizes his own body as the starting point for his artwork. FEEL II features a figure caught in a three-dimensional grid without perspective. The grid both supports and traps the figure, and like many pieces in his oeuvre, maps the human body in space. Gormley states, “Let's think of the space of the body as an unknown and start a three-dimensional exploration. It is a system that feels its way into this bodily darkness and touches the bounding condition, sometimes even breaking through it. That sense of exposing the unknowable to the light is important to me.”

About the artist

Antony Gormley

British

b. 1950

Born in London in 1950, Antony Gormley is a sculptor whose work with the human form transcends literal representation, broaches weighty philosophical issues, and questions perception and the nature of being. Made of iron, lead, terra-cotta, or concrete, all materials that hold a memory of the forces that molded them, his cast figures are always presented in existential scenarios, in rooms or clearings that, although largely empty, feel like densely occupied space. Drawing presents the artist with an alternative method of exploring his ideas, a liberating, playful practice that more readily evidences the artist’s wit and ingenuity. Gormley has exhibited his sculptures and drawings extensively throughout the world, including shows in Japan, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, the former Soviet Union, and throughout Europe and the U.S. His installation, Field, first created in 1989, completed a worldwide tour in 1995. Gormley has created several major public commissions in various parts of the world and had a solo exhibition of his work in Nagoya, Japan.