Artist: Antony Gormley
Title: Matrix III
Media: Carbon, casein and correction fluid on paper
Dimensions: 76 x 56 cm
Date: 2008
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, (born 30 August 1950) is
a British sculptor. Gormley's career began with a solo exhibition at the
Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1981. Almost all his work takes the human body as
its subject, with his own body used in many works as the basis for metal casts.
Generally speaking Gormley does not comment on his pieces, however, he has said that, "The closest experience of matter that I will ever have and the only part of the material world that I live inside"
His pieces fill the voids of the world, by showing the space that the human body occupies. This depiction of the body is vacant, a hollow shell.
This piece is included into our theme of the human form because it is a very detailed and precise replica of the composition of a human body. There are many things that make up a person, and everything ties together into the web of humanity.
By: Lizette
