Tag: Antony Gormley

  • Antony Gormley: Geestgrond

    Including drawings and sketchbooks, models and maquettes, this retrospective is the largest solo exhibition of Gormley’s work to be staged in Europe

  • Antony Gormley – interview: ‘What is made here is a repositioning of the relationship of body to ground’

    Probably the UK’s best-known contemporary sculptor, Gormley has created a new ‘field’ of 100 life-size cast-iron versions of himself at the historic Houghton Hall in Norfolk, where he talked to us about the work

  • Saint Francis of Assisi

    Saint Francis of Assisi, whose story began with a painting, has been depicted in more than 20,000 works of art. This exhibition offers an introduction to the visual biography of a saint who remains remarkably modern

  • Joseph Beuys: 40 Years of Drawing

    Two concurrent exhibitions of Beuys’ work consider his drawings, the first spanning 40 years of his output and the second, curated by Antony Gormley, which explores the strong relationship the latter has developed with the German artist’s work

  • Jacquiline Creswell – interview: ‘When I first sited art in Salisbury Cathedral, I was accused of turning it into a theme park’

    When Creswell joined Salisbury Cathedral as arts curator, she was verbally and physically abused. As she explains, it was her first challenge, but not her last. Here, she talks about bringing world-class art to the cathedral in her 12 years…

  • The Armory Show 2021

    Defying the pandemic and housed in a radiant new show space, New York’s pre-eminent art fair belied the declared brief of its owner, Merchandise Mart Properties Inc, to prioritise quality over eye candy

  • Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now – book review

    This is a fascinating account of conversations between Antony Gormley and the art critic Martin Gayford, over almost 20 years, about sculpture, from Iraqi palaces built in 860BC through totem poles to Richard Serra’s Backdoor Pipeline of 2010

  • Antony Gormley

    There is metal everywhere in this engaging exhibition, which contrasts the gigantic with the minuscule, but it is the drawings that steal the show

  • Garth Evans: But, Hands Have Eyes

    You would probably learn more from a foot-high sculpture by Evans than the whole extravaganza that Antony Gormley is about to present at the Royal Academy

  • From Life

    This exhibition sets out to explore the significance of life drawing and the life class in art practice, but the real joy of drawing is largely overlooked