Home and Away

细节

Antony Gormley (b. 1950)
Home and Away
sterling silver and stainless steel dish
1 3/8 x 8¼ x 4¾in. (3.5 x 21 x 12cm.)
Executed in 2002, this work is number one from an edition of twelve

来源

This work has kindly been donated by the artist.

注意事项

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拍品专文

The human body in its broadest sense is Gormley's language. His meditations on its physical reality and its spiritual and philosophical dimensions are some of the best-known sculptural landmarks in the UK.

In this tiny silver sculpture of a foetus, Gormley has isolated the moment of development where it takes on a human existence; all the basic organs in their nascent form have coalesced to become a potential human being. Interestingly, this piece is one of the few not cast from Gormley's own body or elaborated from moulds of it: he modelled in clay his own imagined prenatal features.