[전시] WhiteCube Gallery Exhibition - 뉴스선인사회 NewsSunin

Hinge II. 2011. 75 9/16 x 46 5/8 x 100 13/16 in. (192 x 118.5 x 256 cm). Cast iron

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젊은 아티스트의 작품을 주로 전시하는 영국 화이트큐브갤러리에서 작품기획전을 2012년 11월 28일부터 2013년 2월 10일까지 진행하고 있다. 영국을 대표하는 아티스트 데미안허스트와 트레이시 에민을 세계적으로 알렸으며 규모가 작지만 세계 미술계에 큰 힘을 발휘하고 있는 갤러리이다. 데미안허스트를 세계무대에 알리는 과정에서 사치갤러리와 화이트큐브갤러리, 영국의 언론들이 협업했던 이야기는 지금도 회자되는 유명한 사건이다.

이번 화이트큐브갤러리에서 전시를 하고 있는 작가 Gormley는 자신의 몸을 납으로 주형을 뜬 조각으로 유명한 영국의 조각가이다. 신체가 주변환경과 맺는 관계를 탐구하고 인간의 필멸성과 영적인 의식을 주제로 하고 있다. 고고학,미술사학,인류학,불교를 공부하였고, 골드스미스칼리지에서 미술을 공부하고 슬레이드미술학교에서 대학원을 마쳤다. 인류, 미술, 종교, 역사를 통틀어서 깊은 통찰을 통해 독특한 작품세계를 보여주고 있는 세계적인 작가로서 yBa의 일원이기도 하다.

Antony Gormley

Model/28 November 2012 – 10 February 2013/Bermondsey

White Cube Bermondsey is pleased to present ‘Model’, an exhibition of major new works by Antony Gormley. Challenging the physical possibilities of the gallery space, this ambitious exhibition investigates our experience of architecture through the body and of the body through architecture.

Made in direct response to the space of the South Galleries is the vast, new work Model (2012), which is also the title of the exhibition. Fabricated from 100 tonnes of weathering sheet steel, the work is both sculpture and building, human in form but at no point visible as a total figure. Visitors will be able to enter the work through a 'foot' and journey through its inter-connected internal chambers, the sculpture demanding that we adjust our pace and bend our bodies to its awkward yet absolute geometry. The experience of this analogy for the 'dark interior of the body' is guided by anticipation and memory and the direct and indirect light which penetrates the structure and which leads us on, as if through a labyrinth.

The central corridor of the gallery will hold new sculptures built of solid iron blocks whose uncompromising orthogonals belie their emotional punch. Propping up the architecture, articulating a corner or lying flat on the ground, these dark works test the bounding condition of the space. Their sculptural language is highly reduced, in some cases so schematic that the body form is rendered purely abstract, but without any loss of human empathy.

The exhibition also features a selection of Gormley's working models, installed on a series of tables. Revealing processes that can be both playful and disciplined, the installation suggests a workshop full of ideas and procedures, methods and materials.

These works, together with a series of new expansion pieces, create an exhibition which powerfully extends Gormley's exploration of the body as a site of transformation.

Born in London in 1950, Antony Gormley’s solo shows include Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia (2012), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2012), The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (2011), Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2010), Hayward Gallery, London (2007), Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (1993) and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (1989). Major public works include Angel of the North (1998, Gateshead, England), Another Place (2005, Crosby Beach, England) and Exposure (2010, Lelystad, The Netherlands). He has also participated in major group shows such as the ‘Venice Biennale’ (1982 and 1986) and ‘Documenta 8’, Kassel, Germany (1987). Gormley won the Turner Prize in 1994 and was made an Officer of the British Empire in 1997. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Royal Academy of Arts and since 2007 a British Museum Trustee.