Lot 38
38
Antony Gormley (B. 1950)
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Antony Gormley (B. 1950)

Stand IX

Details
Antony Gormley (B. 1950)
Stand IX
cast iron
74 ¾ x 17 3/8 x 13in. (190 x 44 x 33cm.)

Executed in 2011
Provenance
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
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Lot Essay

These works attempt to apply the language of modernity to the body in order to see what sort of emotional language arises. Mondrian used the orthogonal grid as a structure for pure perception. With these works I bring the grid to the human body, as a lost subject. The works demand empathy to recover the emotion that Mondrian removed from art’
–Antony Gormley

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