Photo: Tara Wray
Photo: Tara Wray
Photo: Tara Wray
Photo: Tara Wray
Photo: Tara Wray
Photo: Tara Wray
Photo: Tara Wray
Photo: Tara Wray
Antony Gormley
Hall Collection
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Sir Antony Gormley (b. 1950) is internationally lauded for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space.
Present Time (2001) is a cast iron version of one of Gormley's most iconic early works made in 1987 out of lead. The sculpture is based on two molds made directly from Gormley's body. The lower half is a heavy and closed shell, resembling a sarcophagus. In contrast, the inverted body on the upper half is positioned with legs and arms outstretched. Both forms merge at the neckline, connected yet divided.
In Present Time, Gormley illustrates the dichotomy between the physical materiality of our earthly bodies and the boundless imaginative realm of the mind. In describing the work, Gormley says:
"Present Time is my attempt to engage with the mind/body problem. It is a materialization of embodied mindfulness. The lower form is an enclosed mass, armed like a marine mine; the upper one open with all its limbs free, embracing space. It uses the stasis of sculpture to interrupt the living time of the viewer. The stillness of this materialist proposition invites us to reassess our position in time and space."
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