ANTONY GORMLEY (U.K. b. 1950)

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ANTONY GORMLEY (U.K. b. 1950). Asian Field, 2006, NOT site specific installation as part of Biennale of Sydney 2006. Close to 200,000 terra cotta Figurines. Angel of the North, 1995, s teel and copper, 20m x 54m. Stands at Gateshead , England, looking over a busy expressway. . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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ANTONY GORMLEY (U.K. b. 1950)

Asian Field, 2006, NOT site specific installation as part of Biennale of Sydney 2006. Close to 200,000 terra cottaFigurines.

Angel of the North, 1995, steel and copper, 20m x 54m. Stands at Gateshead, England, looking over a busy expressway.

Life-size maquette at National Gallery of Australia,Canberra

http://www.antonygormley.com/resources/video-item/id/143

Watch this video clip on Angel of the North:

Inside Australia, 2003, site specific installation comprising 51 figures, Lake BallardWestern Australia.

Drift III, 2008, 2mm square section stainless steel bar 260 x 260 x 230 cm

DRIFT I, 2007-20123 mm square section stainless steel bar362 x 507 x 445 cm

“I've never been interested in making statues. Rather than representing the body itself, I try to show the space where the body was.” Antony Gormley

Learning to think, 1991. Figures are life size. This was a site-specific installation in an old jail.

EDGE, 1985 Lead, fibreglass, plaster, air 25 x 58 x 195 cm, figure suspended from wall at similar height to where a bed would stand.

Transport, 2010, slightly larger than life size, Canterbury Cathedral, UK. Made from old iron nails taken from the cathedral. Floats above the century tomb of Thomas Becket, Archibishop of Canterbury in the 12 century, who was murdered.

Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917) , Little dancer of 14 years, originally wax with clothes, 1865 -1881, approx. 108cm,cast in bronze in about 1921 after his death.

Constantin Brancusi (Romania 1876 – 1957)The Kiss, 1916, limestone, 58 x 34 x 25 cm)

Antonio Canova (Italy, 1757-1852) The Three Graces, marble, c. 1815, 173 X 97 X 57 cm.

Venus of Willendorf, 23000 BCE

Waste man, 2006, giant figure made of rubbish from the Margate community

Watch this video on Waste Man: http://www.antonygormley.com/resources/video-item/id/167

Vessel, 2012, Cor-Ten steel370 x 2200 x 480 cm

Q: Observe Plates 1 and 2. Explain THREE aspects of Reg Mombassa’s artmaking practice by referring briefly to his ideas and actions.

Plate 2: Chris O’Doherty aka Reg Mombassa, (New Zealand b. 1951)

Artwork for the back of a Mambo shirt, 2000, acrylic paint and gouache on

paper, 30 x 25cm

Plate 1: Chris O’Doherty aka Reg Mombassa, (New Zealand, b. 1951) Sunshower, 2003, charcoal and coloured pencil on paper, 23 x 25cm

Chiaru Shiota, b. 1972, Japan, living in Germany. Dialogue from DNA, 2004. Manggha, Centre of Japanese Art & Technology, Krakow, Poland. Shoes, wool, yarn, paper. Variable dimensions.

Photograph of audience members reading a story accompanying one of the shoes in Dialogue from DNA, 2004.

The shoes were collected in Krakow andWarsaw from people who didn’t want touse them anymore.

The people were asked to write a story about their shoes, a memory. All in all 450pairs were collected and shown at Manggha 2004.Extract from www. Chiharu-shiota.com