In the mountains of Austria with the help of a helicopter fitted hundred iron men sculptures within an ambitious installation by Antony Gormley "Space horizon".

last week in the mountains of Vorarlberg in western Austria, with the help of the helicopter was running the latest of a hundred cast-iron male sculptures by Antony Gormley. The giant installation "Space horizon» (Horizon Field) continues to similar projects of the artist associated with the installation of metal shapes in the natural growth in unexpected places. In 2007, under the "Event Horizon» (Event Horizon) sculptures were installed on the rooftops of London buildings, and in March 2010 cast figures, which are based on molds to the body of the author himself, was decorated with New York Manhattan . In both cases, the figures on the rooftops of megacities caused a wave of calls local residents who took them for suicide bombers. Little men, now adorn the mountains of Vorarlberg, are unlikely to cause such associations. Rather, it is lonely travelers, admiring alpine scenery.

Shapes "Space horizon" are scattered in an area of 150 square kilometers. This is the first installation of its kind and scale, carried out in the mountains. The figures stand for on the Alpine slopes for two years. Open to all winds and the elements all year round, they will undoubtedly be modified and viewed every time a different way.

All sculptures are installed at the same altitude - 2,039 meters above sea level - and form a single horizontal line. The intervals between them range from 60 meters to several kilometers, depending on the landscape. This figure turned into all possible sides, but not to each other. Until some of the sculptures can be reached on foot or on skis, while others see only a successful review points.

Gormley in his project to question the limits of human intrusion into nature at the present level of urbanization of the planet. Tourists and the skiers will be able to measure the distance between the cast-iron figures, communication lines between the space of social and geological between landscape and collective memory.

Project Space horizon "is supported by the Kunsthaus Bregenz museum. Over the past 13 years, he organized numerous exhibitions of contemporary art, including projects Anish Kapoor (Amish Kapoor, 2003), Kenny Holzer (Kenny Holzer, 2004), Janet Kadif (Janet Cardiff, 2005) and Michael Craig-Martin (Michael Craig- Martin, 2006).

Regarding draft Gormley, he would have been impossible without the approval of the state, land owners, including 12 agricultural communities (including a very large number), and ecologists . Their consent was obtained from a three-year PR campaign Gormley installation, Kunsthaus Bregenz held.

Material prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

Source: artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru