Sir Antony Gormley*
Description
REFLECTIONS XLII by Sir Antony Gormley
*Live Auction
As a child, growing up next to the sea and often being alone on the beach at the end of the day, there was a sense of almost disappearing into the combination of light, ground and air. The Reflection drawings return to the theme of being invited to re-inhabit not just your body, but your time, your being. There’s something about the way in which the oil behaves and the fact that these bodies are being absorbed by the paper and slowly bleeding to the point where they almost become invisible, that chimes with what they evoke.
Crude oil on paper, drawing.
Signed, dated and titled on verso.
Unique.
Dimensions are 15 x 10.5cm.
2015.
Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture since the 1960s through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions of where human beings stand in relation to nature and the cosmos. Gormley continually tries to identify the space of art as a place of becoming in which new behaviours, thoughts and feelings can arise.