Largest (literally) of the exhibition is the work of the "Model" - metal structure in the shape of a man lay inside which can simultaneously accommodate up to several hundred visitors

Antony Gormley Model. 2012
Exhibition Gallery White Cube
Source: artdaily.com

gallery White Cube, London,
November 28, 2012 - February 10, 2013

In London White Cube Gallery recently opened an exhibition of new works by Antony Gormley "model." The exhibition takes its name from the main and most impressive work, which he himself said Gormley culmination of 30 years of creative research. "Model" - a giant sculpture of the 24-building connected blocks of rooms, stainless steel. Outwardly, it resembles a pile of geometric shapes, and many see it as a very successful building of a replica of the gallery White Cube, based in a group of former warehouses, practical and square in shape. "Model" has become a real challenge for exhibition spaces gallery - sculpture comes to ceiling spacious hall.

But that's not all. As usual, Gormley could not do without the presence of a person, "Model", in reality, is a figure reclining man, though greatly modified. Visitors get inside through the "heel" of the "figures" and fall into a kind of labyrinth of rooms and passages. There can even be lost, and suffering from claustrophobia are advised not to abuse walks inside the statue. In the words of the artist himself, people are free to do whatever they come to mind, when will be inside: can sleep, relax, go for a picnic. Gormley's son, for example, has made the sculpture into a playground for parkour. According to calculations of the author, in "Models" can simultaneously accommodate up to a thousand people. And even if that number is exaggerated, the scope of work is still impressive. In addition to the "Models", the exhibition presents other, more modest works of the artist.

Antony Gormley's famous for his unusual project to introduce contemporary art into everyday life. One of his most famous public sculpture is the "Angel of the North" in Gateshead. In 2009, Gormley invited everyone to stay a living monument to the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square under the "One and the other. " A large number of tourists are still under the impression of hundreds of cast iron figures which Gormley found in the most unexpected places, Austrian Alps .

Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources : artdaily.com , guardian.co.uk , telegraph.co.uk , artinvestment.ru