New Antony Gormley Monograph Explores the Body and Urbanism
Sculptor Anthony JormleyThe question does not revolve around how to adapt the body to a built environment, but rather about how to build an object in the first place. Throughout his decades’ career, the British artist considered this primary question from different angles, the most prominent of which is through his chosen articles. His wallet is full of sculptures presented in clay and iron, many effects of pregnancy for the human form without being completely metaphorical. These works are the main attraction in the new Gormley study with the Italian publishing house Captive.
October is scheduled, Anthony Jormley: Body buildings The new artist’s catalogs Solo exhibition From the same name in Galleria Confo in Beijing. Throughout the time, we are witnessing the huge works based on the exhibition, explaining through the wide photography of the installation as well as a new grant from the art critic is Hanro and historian Stephen Greenblatt. These units are very similar to the “interrogation” of our gender relationship with an increasingly high world, “according to the publisher.
At the heart of the book The second resting placeA huge work of 2024, which is in many ways, ideal for the practice of Jormley as a whole. The piece consists of 132 people of clay, each of which is designed from mass geometric folders. Some numbers flow across the ground, stared at the ceiling of the exhibition, while others roll into narrow balls, which reduces their size to the point that they become more abstract and unable. Regardless of how it is placed, though, each statue is a clear architectural, indicating that the human and urban body affects each other to the degree of potential synthesis. Whether this synthesis is good or bad, the imagination is left, with the form of Gormeli with blocking its own answer.
“We are now looking at Anthony Brick spread through the exhibition like buildings or ruins, we are invited to think about the beginning of things, where civilizations begin and end,” writes Mario Christiani, co -founder of Galleria Conte, at the forefront of a study.
In his own article, Greenblatt adds: “In order for there to be a new form of existence, the entire organism does not have to have; The second resting placeEach of them is produced by reinstating the blocks, and we are looking into a model for the generation of life itself. “
Regardless of work sculpture, Body buildings Gormley’s graphics, many of which have not been published before. The artist’s drawings are particularly exciting, as they include everything from the ink of walnuts and encouraging blood and linseed oil in a way that reminds us again of the land, body and relationships between them. It is worth noting that the drawing was a long time for Jormali, as he presented a “laboratory” for the topics he explored through other media. The artist claimed that “a day without a lost drawing.”
A photographer from Gormley complements the book, tracks its continuous dialogue and its participation with China and the surrounding area. Here, we face archival photos from the first research trip to the country in 1995 to important projects such as The Asian field From 2003, The horizon of the event From 2007, and Host From 2016.
Anthony Jormley: Body buildings It will be published on October 7, 2025. The book is currently available for pre -order via library and Captive.
The next Anthony Jormley study, Body buildingsSee how the artist uses natural materials and human shapes to question built environments.
“Resting Place II” (2024), at “Body Buildings”, Galleria Continua, Beijing, 2024-25. (Photo: Huang Shauli)
“Shame” (2023), at the “Body Buildings” exhibition, Galleria Conte, Beijing, 2024-25. (Photo: Huang Shauli)
“Al-Naqa” (2023), at the “Physical Buildings” exhibition, Galleria Conte, Beijing, 2024-25. (Photo: Huang Shauli)
Show the installation of the “Body Buildings” exhibition in Galleria Conoa, Beijing, 2024-25. (Photo: Huang Shauli)
The book follows a single exhibition of the same name that was organized earlier this year at Galleria Continua in Beijing.
“Resting Place II” (2024), at “Body Buildings”, Galleria Continua, Beijing, 2024-25. (Photo: Huang Shauli)
“Resting Place II” (2024), at “Body Buildings”, Galleria Continua, Beijing, 2024-25. (Photo: Huang Shauli)
“Resting Place II” (2024), at “Body Buildings”, Galleria Continua, Beijing, 2024-25. (Photo: Huang Shauli)
“Circle” (2022), at the “Body Buildings” exhibition, Galleria Conte, Beijing, 2024-25. (Photo: Huang Shauli)
Show the installation of the “Body Buildings” exhibition in Galleria Conoa, Beijing, 2024-25. (Photo: Huang Shauli)
Body buildings It will be published on October 7, 2025, by the Italian publisher Skyra.
Show the installation of the “Body Buildings” exhibition in Galleria Conoa, Beijing, 2024-25. (Photo: Huang Shauli)
“Resting Place II” (2024), at “Body Buildings”, Galleria Continua, Beijing, 2024-25. (Photo: Huang Shauli)
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