27/09/2021
Filter Fine Art is thrilled to be exhibiting works by ANTONY GORMLEY at Window Moncur, 83 Moncur Street, Woollahra, Sydney. Thank you for the invitation and opportunity to get out and about once again. The works are viewable daily from the street until 24th October (with lights out at 10.30pm).
'Matrix I – X' (2016)
Complete set of ten aquatints on 290gsm Fabriano Tiepolo paper.
Each signed, numbered and dated in pencil on reverse.
Edition of 25.
I – IV: 28 x 28 cm (sheet)
V – VIII: 32 x 32 cm (sheet)
IX – X: 35 x 35 cm (sheet)
The MATRIX aquatints are constructed from plates which carry the silhouette of architectural blocks printed one on top of the other. This accumulation of black conveys a sense of inner embodied darkness and presence. Each plate is created with rosin ground by hand, the resulting particles gently sifted through a sieve before being heated to make a granular ground.
ANTONY GORMLEY is one of the world’s most influential and acclaimed contemporary artists. For four decades, his practice has unwaveringly focussed on the dynamic of the body in space. Underlying his sculptures, expansive site-specific installations and works on paper is a profound engagement with and questioning of how the inside of the body relates to the outside, and where human beings stand in relation to both our immediate surrounds and the cosmos beyond. Gormley has achieved significant international recognition with a number of large-scale public artworks including: 'Angel of the North' (1998), a fifty-four metre wide steel sculpture of an angel overlooking the A1 motorway in England; 'Event Horizon' (2007-), thirty one life-size anatomically correct sculptures cast from the artist’s own body, originally displayed in London, then in New York, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Hong Kong; and 'Inside Australia' (2003), fifty one metal figures installed on the vast sodium crust at Lake Ballard, Western Australia. Antony Gormley won the Turner Prize in 1994 and was knighted in 2014.
