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British sculptor Antony Gormley is obsessed with the human body in relation to space. For more than 40 years of artistic career, Gormley has been exploring the connection body-space in his great scale facilities such as Another Place, Domain Field and Inside Australia.
Most interestingly, Gormley bases on his own body and subjectivity, to invite the viewer to be part of that intimate perspective, and to give a collective projection.
Gormley´s art has been exhibited in some of the most important institutions in the world such as the Tate and the British Museum in England, Kunsthalle zu Kiel in Germany and the National Museum of Modern History in China in Beijing. Now his riveting work arrives in Rome with his first exhibition at the MACRO entitled “Drawing Space”, which opened on October 26 and will remain open until February 6, 2011.
Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero and Anna Moszynska, the exhibition presents approximately 80 drawings, which were devised since 1981, representing an important aspect in the career of Gormley, as well as four recent sculptures.
Fascinated by the penetration of the human being in imaginative, emotional and concrete space, in these drawings the artist focuses on the human body as a starting point, and from there he explores how we relate and orientate to space. But Gormley also feels a strong interest in these critical moments in which human beings start to get disoriented and lost, when they feel that space pervades.
More info at: http://en.macro.roma.museum/mostre_ed_eventi/mostre/antony_gormley_drawing_space
Heloise Battista
If you don’t want to miss the work of this important artist, we recommend you to rent apartments in Rome Until February 6 you Hill have the chance to visit the MACRO and occupy your space in this fascinating exhibition.
