New season – New Highlights: Antony Gormley 'STATION XIII'
Antony Gormley STATION XIII
After having gained a degree in art history, archaeology and anthropology Gormley spent time in India and Sri Lanka for three years, where he studied meditation and seriously considered becoming a Buddhist monk. When he returned to the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 1970s he studied art at Central Saint Martins, Goldsmiths College and at the Slade School of Art. Gormley’s first artworks were partly inspired by his time in Asia and by the possibility of creating private spaces within public ones. It is at this stage that he first created a work taken from a plaster mould of his own body.
During the 1980s Gormley continued to consider the body in relation to its environment. Between the 1990s and the 2010s, he placed life-size sculptures in both the landscape and urban environments. These settings amplified the fragility of the human form and reformulated the philosophical questions that Gormley’s sculptures provoked. In 1994 Gormley received the prestigious Turner Prize.
From the 2010s Gormley has continued to call attention to the human body through a number of different approaches – some of these are developments from earlier projects, but they have increasingly become more and more related to architecture. In his solitary sculptures, placed in crowded urban settings, he also reflects on human population growth and on the transformed physical and emotional environment we live in today.
To be sold at Contemporary Art & Design
Viewing 15 – 19 April, Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm.
Open Mon–Fri 11 AM – 6 PM, Sat–Sun 11 AM –5 PM.
Auction 20 April, Arsenalsgatan 2, Stockholm.
Bid on the artwork
STATION XIII will be sold during Contemporary Art & Design on April 20, Estimate 3,500,000 - 4,000,000 SEK.