Gormley's sculptures lack any personal detail distinguishing them as a particular human being. Instead, the forms are smoothed out making them completely anonymous.
Angel of the North (1998) is a very large (20 metres tall, with a wingspan of 54 metres) sculpture standing by the side of the A1 road in Gateshead. It was the source of some controversy when first erected, but has been generally well received by the public.
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Everyone surely knows AnthonyGormley, he's a sculptor, you know the Angel of the North, surely the best known and certainly the largest public sculpture in the country.
Latterly he's used an army of volunteers to be wrapped and turned into plaster casts, and in between times he turned a sizeable chunk of the Western Australian desert into a sculpture park with his isolated metal figures appearing out of the blistering heat.
AnthonyGormley does not think small and he works in and with the public, for as he proclaimed recently, 'I want to democratise the space of art.
Antony Gormley's most recent works have been brought together in three venues by a major collaboration between the Malmo Konsthall (Sept-Oct 93), the Tate Gallery Liverpool (Nov 93- Feb 94) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art where the work will be shown from (April 14-June 19).
Gormley received the Turner Prize, and gained a further international profile after being represented by gallerist Jay Jopling.
Gormley'sField for the British Isles continued to be remanifest.
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