Index Code:

ART-STA-GOR

Orgin:

Field Notes:

Cast volumes and open frameworks use human scale to test density void and horizon

Defining Moment:

The standing steel matrices where dispersed nodes outline a figure as a tensile cloud mapping how a body inhabits architecture

Antony Gormley

(

1950–

)

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Gormley built a world where the human form becomes container — mass, void, and horizon measured through its presence.

His sculptures align inner and outer space through disciplined proportion.

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Antony Gormley’s work, this approach appears where the human body operates as a unit for measuring space and structure.

Position

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Antony Gormley’s work, this approach appears where the human body operates as a unit for measuring space and structure.

Material Intelligence

Material behavior actively determines structural decisions.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Proportion

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Space

Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Contemporary

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

Sculptural Modernism

Modernist form asserts volume, mass, and spatial presence.

Antony Gormley

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Position

Body as Measure

Observartory

In Dialogue

Antony Gormley

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Position

Body as Measure

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue