Antony Gormley: In Formation
Wonderful exhibition at White Cube Masons’ Yard of new work by Antony Gormley.
The upstairs
gallery had four large figures. The component blocks are loose and use their
weight as the principle of construction. They look very solid and permanent but
knowing this made you realise they were more fragile. Some of them faced the wall and leaned
against it and I wanted to go up and comfort them.
The downstairs
gallery had smaller, rust coloured figures. Called “Aggregates” evidently they
are made of aggregated blocks which treat use the language of coding to suggest
“struggle and symbiosis between body and black”. I’m not sure I’d have got that
on my own but I liked them anyway. At
times the figures seem to be emerging from the blocks and the commentary
did liken them to Michelangelo’s slave figures. I loved watching people walk
around them and interact with them.
The works were
surrounded by interesting drawings from five series but the commentary offered
no explanation of them. They looked like explosions and seemed to have no link
to the sculpture but it would have been nice to know a bit more about them.
Closes 18 January
2020
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