Domain XXVII

Details

Antony Gormley (b. 1950)
Domain XXVII
4.76 mm square section stainless steel bar
74 ¾ x 27 1/8 x 14 ½ in. (190 x 69 x 37 cm.)
Executed in 2002

Provenance

Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

H. Kwastek, Follow Me: Britische Kunst an der Unterelbe, Stade 1997 (illustrated).
N. Brodie, Material Engagements: Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew, Cambridge 2004 (illustrated).
M. Mack (ed.), Antony Gormley, Göttingen 2007 (illustrated, p. 526).

Exhibited

Salzburg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Standing Matter, 2003 (illustrated).
Vancouver, Open Spaces: Vancouver International Sculpture Project, Third Biennale, 2003.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

‘I wanted to escape from the delimination of skin (whether the exclusive volumes of lead bodycases or the solid volumes of the bodyforms) and acknowledge the body as a place of transformation… As this work progressed the minimum member rule arose: to use the least amount of material necessary to convey the attitude of the body (while still allowing it to stand). The work achieved tension.’
(A. Gormley quoted at www.antonygormley.com).

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