Antony Gormley Research

I would like to spawn objects as part of my assignment, and after looking at some of Antony Gormley's work I have decided that I would like to incorporate some of his concepts and the shapes he uses into the objects I will be spawning. I was particularly interested in the APERTURE and FRAMER sculpture series', and his exploration of the body through new kinds of structural complexity.

The FRAMER works refer to the "masses discovered within the total body volume", and use architectural volumes to describe and extend the body.



The aim of the APERTURE works is to "turn the body into an open framework of tetrahedral, cubic, dodecahedral and more complex polygons", and the outer edges of the works seemingly "grasp the air and indicate, in the metaphorical sense, the moment in which a body opens itself to the space around it".



Gormley states: "My work has always explored the body as a place rather than an object", and this is interesting for our experiment brief because I would like to explore how the body moves around a place and explore the ways in which I can use architectural volumes and masses to portray this movement.
I plan to use the types of volumes that Gormley uses in his FRAMER works in particular as the objects that are to be spawned as I (local player) move around the environment. This will be the beginnings of my Porosity Lens.

I have visited many of Antony Gormley's Exhibitions in the UK, including 'Event Horizon', and more recently 'Another Place' which I visited in June this year with my family.


(it was a pretty horrible English day!)