Artist Spotlight
Antony Gormley: Bodies That Hold The World
In the summer of 2024, Antony Gormley unveiled BUTTRESS, a monumental new cast iron work that arrived with the quiet authority that has come to define his practice across five decades. It is the kind of object that seems less made than discovered, as though Gormley had located something already latent in the material world and simply given it form. At a moment when sculpture as a discipline is being reconsidered and celebrated anew, Gormley stands at the centre of that conversation, as vital and formally adventurous as at any point in his long career. For collectors and institutions alike,… Continue reading
Artists in conversation
Richard Serra
Serra similarly created monumental steel sculptures that engage with space and the human body's experience within it, sharing Gormley's interest in how large scale forms transform physical environments.
George Segal
Segal produced cast figurative sculptures placed in public and gallery spaces, exploring human presence and absence through the body in ways that closely parallel Gormley's preoccupations.
Juan Muñoz
Muñoz created large scale figurative installations that meditate on the human form, solitude, and spatial relationships, sharing Gormley's conceptual use of repeated or isolated figures to evoke psychological and existential states.
Artists who inspired them
Alberto Giacometti
Giacometti's elongated and existentially charged figurative sculptures profoundly shaped Gormley's approach to the body as a site of vulnerability and philosophical inquiry.
Constantin Brancusi
Brancusi's reduction of the human form to essential abstract shapes influenced Gormley's development of simplified, concentrated figurative volumes that balance figuration with abstraction.
Joseph Beuys
Beuys's use of the body as a political and spiritual medium and his expansion of sculpture into social and conceptual territory strongly informed Gormley's thinking about art's role in public space and human experience.
