Antony Gormley
Sculptor
1950-08-30
Antony Gormley is a British sculptor known for large-scale public artworks that explore the human body and space. He won the Turner Prize in 1994.
Quotes by Antony Gormley
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'6 Times' is an attempt to reinvestigate the social responsibility of sculpture. The body in question is a particular body, but it doesn't really matter whose it is.
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My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis.
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I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.
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How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?
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I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.
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