Antony Gormley – GROUND

The British artist approaches the age-old subject of the human body in his own unique, yet universal and philosophical way, building on art history and conceptual sculpture of the 1960s and 1970s. GROUND will be one of the most ambitious exhibitions in the museum’s history, the first to occupy both the museum and the estate of Voorlinden.

Antony Gormley: "Sculpture is no longer a medium of memorial and idealisation but a context in which human being can be examined. Sculpture is no longer representational: it is an instrument of investigation and questioning. I have called this exhibition GROUND to make this open invitation of sculpture clear. Without the viewer there is no show, without the gallery there is no context. The joy of this kind of exhibition is to allow the richness of the context itself to become activated by sculpture."

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Picture: Antony Gormley, LOCK I, 1994, Lead, fibreglass, plaster, steel and air, 92 x 59 x 127 cm, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands, Photograph by Stephen White, London, © the artist