ANTONY GORMLEY – CONSTRUCT
2016-05-16The exhibition begins with a life-size work from Gormley’s series of ‘Bodycases,’ Bridge (1985), in the front gallery space. This is one of the earliest works made from a plaster mould of the artist’s body, strengthened with fiberglass and encased in a skin of lead. Gormley sees Bridge as an objective mapping of the subjective space of the human body. The visible soldering lines on its surface form clear horizontal and vertical axes: the body is treated as the location of physical and spatial experience. Bridge is presented alongside Scaffold (2015), a recent work in which Gormley has translated the grid of horizontal and vertical lines of Bridge into a freestanding, three-dimensional mapping of the internal volumes of the body. Together these works propose that we consider the body less as an object and more as a site and agent of transformation.
Opposite – BIG PLUCK 2, 2016
Exhibition runs through till May 29th, 2016
Sean Kelly Gallery
475 Tenth Avenue
New York
NY 10018
