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Admirers of award-winning British
installation artist Antony Gormley will soon have the privilege of
viewing his renowned Asian Field at Earl Lu Gallery. |
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Organised by LASALLE-SIA¡¯s Institute of
Contemporary Arts Singapore, this will be the sixth stop for the
exhibition that has travelled to Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai and
Chongqing in China, Japan and Incheon in Korea. |
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Acknowledged as a key work in contemporary
sculpture, Asian Field is the most ambitious of Gormley¡¯s sculptural
installations; being over four times larger than any of its
predecessors. 190,000 reddish terracotta clay figures were made, under
the guidance of the artist, by 440 men, women and children of all ages
from Xiangshan village, northeast of Guangzhou over an intensive
five-day period. |
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In the exhibition at Earl Lu Gallery, 40,000
of the figures will be exhibited. |
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Recipient of the 1994 Turner Prize and the
subject of large scale surveys at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, the Malmo
Konsthall, Sweden, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Antony Gormley
has revitalised the human figure in sculpture. |
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He is probably best known for having
pioneered the technique of using his own body as a living mould for
life-sized figures in bronze and other metals. Generating controversy
and passion, Gormley¡¯s public sculptures raise key issues about the
relations between art, society and the environment as a metaphysical and
political realm. |
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Field is about the joy in material contact;
about touch and touch expressed for its own sake. Touch not just by
Gormley¡¯s hands but by many people¡¯s hands. |
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All his Field series ¨C British Field,
European Field, American Field, Field for the British Isles and Asian
Field ¨C have been made up of clay figures sculpted by the local people
from the villages or cities where the exhibitions were held. This is
done to create a strong presence of the original inhabitants of each
continent, and to carry the voice of the other to reaffirm the spirit of
the land that lives through the people. |
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To Gormley, Field is a kind of liberation in
many ways, a kind of harvesting, and tilling the earth with the hands.
But instead of making something grow, it is the earth that people are
forming directly ¨C the harvest comes from within the people. |
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Asian Field will be officially opened by
National Arts Council Chairman, Mr Edmund Cheng, on Thursday 27 October
2005 at 7pm, Earl Lu Gallery. The exhibition continues until 11 December
2005. |
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Antony Gormley will be in Singapore to
oversee the installation of Field as well as give a public lecture
entitled: The Viewer and the Viewed on October 29 at LASALLE-SIA. |
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