ON VIEW

Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. Since the early 1980s, Gormley has been making figures  molded from his own body in various positions. Gormley’s sculptures explore his own relationship to the world and to the history of sculpture, but his figures also act as a surrogates for humanity more broadly as a way to investigate our relationship to the world around us.   

In Three Places, Gormley creates a link between the viewer and different states of consciousness: anticipation, represented by the standing figure; contemplation, represented by the seated figure; and dreaming, represented by the supine figure. In these forms, he stresses that how one connects and responds to the world is through the physical self. For the artist, the essence of meaning is extracted from physical posture alone, not details of expression.