30 December 2019

Meet Socially-Conscious Activist Artist Antony Gormley: Power & Optimism

Readers of this blog might be wondering why so many posts about artists who are active in transforming public public spaces get so much attention here.







BRIEF BIO:
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, OBE, is a British sculptor.
His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February ... Wikipedia
Born: August 30, 1950 (age 69 years), London, United Kingdom

Known for: Sculpture, Installation Art, Public Artworks
 
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https://www.cnn.com › videos › 2019/11/12 › amanpour-antony-gormley

Nov 12, 2019
Renowned artist Sir Antony Gormley takes Christiane Amanpour on an intimate tour around his extraordinary ...
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https://www.skny.com › artists › antony-gormley
May 22, 2019 - Uploaded by Sean Kelly Gallery
Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the ...
 
Inside the show: Antony Gormley at the RA - YouTube
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Oct 30, 2019 - Uploaded by Royal Academy of Arts
I see this show as a really important test ground. What can sculpture do?” Enjoy a drone's eye view of our ...
 
Antony Gormley exhibition trailer - YouTube
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Sep 9, 2019 - Uploaded by Royal Academy of Arts
Six tonnes of steel mesh, eight kilometres of coiled tubing and a gallery flooded with clay and sea water… This ...
 
How it was made: Antony Gormley's Cave - YouTube
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Oct 28, 2019 - Uploaded by Royal Academy of Arts
Michelangelo dealt with the resistance of marble, the intrinsic weaknesses of a block. Here we're dealing with ...
 
Antony Gormley answers: What is art? · SFMOMA
https://www.sfmoma.org › watch › antony-gormley-answers-what-art
Nov 18, 2015
Sculptor Antony Gormley considers how we view the body: as “object,” as “place,” and even as “energy field,” and in the ...
 
How it was made: Antony Gormley's Matrix III - YouTube
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Oct 28, 2019 - Uploaded by Royal Academy of Arts
This is the grid at the heart of the urban grid… The inner skeleton of the environment that we live in.” - Antony ...
 
Antony Gormley in conversation with Iwona Blazwick - YouTube
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Oct 9, 2019 - Uploaded by Royal Academy of Arts
Antony Gormley discusses his practice, career and current exhibition at the RA with Director of the ...
 
Antony Gormley · SFMOMA
https://www.sfmoma.org › artist › Antony_Gormley
Nov 18, 2015
Sculptor Antony Gormley considers how we view the body: as “object,” as “place,” and even as “energy field,” and in the ...
 
https://www.ted.com › antony_gormley_sculpted_space_within_and_without › discussion

Dec 10, 2015
Legendary sculptor Antony Gormley riffs on space and the human form. His works explore the interior space ...

 
 
 

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