-
Details
- Date
- 2007
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- mild steel blocks
- Dimensions
- 165.0 x 48.0 x 60.0 cm
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Art Gallery of New South Wales Foundation 2008
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 74.2008
- Copyright
- © Antony Gormley
- Artist information
-
Antony Gormley
Works in the collection
- Share
-
About
Antony Gormley has always started his work from a study of the human body notably his own. He never makes literal representations of the body but creates traces that we experience and fill with our own imagination. In this case the energy represented by the modular construction yields the impression of an intimate pose once the eye has adjusted to the “pixilation”.
Gormley’s work appears like silent sentinels but they are physical manifestations of the inner self – his interest is really about the possibilities and the realities of exploring and defining the human presence. In 'Haft' (made up of hundreds of small rectangular highly finished steel blocks) we are again confronted with the internal mass, oddly articulated, which echoes the strengths and frailties of the human within.
-
Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Ataxia, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Melbourne, 30 Nov 2007–21 Dec 2007
Some mysterious process, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jun 2020–13 Sep 2020
Archie Plus, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Sep 2020–07 Mar 2021
From Here, for Now, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Nov 2022–12 Feb 2023
-
Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
-
Edmund Capon, Look, 'Sculptural Holy Grail', pg.27, Sydney, Aug 2008, 27 (colour illus.).
-