From 17 July to 2 September 2009 in the Center of Contemporary Culture “garage” Antony Gormley exhibition opened “Field attraction”

One of the most famous works of world renowned sculptor Antony Gormley «Field attraction», based on which the copies are taken with the phone more than two hundred volunteer participants will be provided at the Center of Contemporary Culture «garage» in Moscow from July 17 on September 2nd, 2009.

spectacular installation of 287 sculptures-«particles» fill the main exhibition space «garage». This work was created at the request of the British BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art in 2003. In the first phase of its implementation team of specially trained assistants were made plaster molds of voluntary participants in age from two to eighty-five years. Subsequently, these copies as the basis for creating individual sculptures, consisting of 8 rows of stainless steel bars of different lengths, knitted in the cavity of each of the cast.

«Field attraction» - the first of two exhibitions of Anthony Gormley, scheduled in Moscow this year. Sculptor claimed as the special guest of the third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, where his installation «Event Horizon» located in the heart of the city from September 25 to November 22, 2009.

Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950. Over the past twenty-five years, the artist explores the human body as a memory and transformation. works, using his own body as subject, tool and material of his life. Since 1990, his interest in human nature has spread to the study of the collective body and the relationship «I» and «other», which was reflected in the large-scale installations, such as «õÄÅÌ», «critical mass», «Another place», «Field attraction »,« Australia », and« Event Horizon ». Devoting works «Clean», «Blind Light», «sky» and «Another singleness» work on the mass and volume, in its most recent installations, the artist is increasingly drawn to consider the phenomena of power systems.

personal exhibition of works by Antony Gormley has been all over Britain, including such well-known cultural institutions, as the Whitechapel, Tate, gallery Hayward, the British Museum and gallery White Cube. His works have been presented at major galleries and museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Museum of Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, the Museum «Louisiana» Humlebeke and in the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.

Antony Gormley attended major group exhibitions including the Venice Biennale and Documenta 8 in Kassel. His work «Field» went to America, Europe and Asia. Artworks «Angel of the North» and «Quantum Cloud», set on the Thames in Greenwich, are among the most well-known specimens of modern British sculpture. One of the key installations of the artist - «Another place» - is installed on Crosby beach in Merseyside.

In 1994, Antony Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize and in 1999 - South Bank Prize for the Visual Arts. In 1997, the artist became a knight of the Order of the British Empire.

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