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Antony GORMLEY,1950 -

MEME CCC

2013

cast iron, 3.9 kg

9.0 × 8.5 × 17.0 cm

stamped with studio reference number (underside)

ESTIMATE :
$53,300 - $100,000
CONDITION

Generally in good condition.
The artwork is in generally good condition but suggests a few areas (please refer to the condition report detailed pictures) could do with some attention.
These markings can be removed by following the instructions from the official manual provided by the artist's studio.

DESCRIPTION

Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture since the 1960s through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions of where human beings stand in relation to nature and the cosmos. Gormley continually tries to identify the space of art as a place of becoming in which new behaviours, thoughts and feelings can arise.

A ‘meme’ is a cultural analogue to a gene. A form that is 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 cast 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.

PROVENANCE

Gelleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Christie’s, Hong Kong , Mar 29, 2018

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