Antony Gormley (B. 1950)
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Antony Gormley (B. 1950)

MEME CCLXIV

Details
Antony Gormley (B. 1950)
MEME CCLXIV
dated ‘2011' (on the underside)
cast iron
9 ½ x 3 7/8 x 6 ¼in. (24 x 10 x 16cm.)
Executed in 2011, this work is unique
Provenance
Galleria Continua, San Gimignano.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
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.
Further Details
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Lot Essay

A MEME is a cultural analogue to a gene. Forms that are transmitted in thought or behaviour from one body to another, responding to conditional environments, self-replicating and capable of mutation.

The miniature or the model allows the totality of a body to be seen at once. These small solid iron works use the formal language of architecture to replace anatomy and construct volumes to articulate a range of 33 body postures. The ambition is to make intelligible forms that form an abstract lexicon of body-posture but which nevertheless carry the invitation of empathy and the transmission of states of mind.

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