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Antony Gormley

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Antony Gormley is a sculpture and artist who thinks about and explores the relationship between the human body and the space we occupy or the space around us. Gormley was born in London in 1950. His sculptures are almost exclusively are of the human form- usually metal castes of his own body. He wants his work to make people look around and asses their place in the world. He likes to think about the human body as a place not a thing. Like our body is an event that occurred in a space at a certain time. His sculptures are like a place marker for a time that a body inhabited that space.  One thing I really like about him is that he is modest and sincere about his work. He has a real line of inquiry that he explores over and over again. Also, his wife, Vicken Parsons, also an artist, often works with him and he lives her and values her as a person and an artist.

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