Antony Gormley, Horizon Field, Austria, August 2010 - April 201212
The Kunsthaus Bregenz of Austria and British artist Antony Gormley are working on a unique project in the mountains of Vorarlberg.
Gormley’s Horizon Field will be the first art project of its kind erected in the mountains, and the largest landscape intervention in Austria to date.
Horizon Field consists of 100 life-size, solid cast iron figures of the human body spread over an area of 58 square miles in the communities of Mellau, Schoppernau, Schröcken, Warth, Mittelberg, Lech, Klösterle, and Dalaas.
The work forms a horizontal line at 2,039 meters (6,690 feet) above sea level. This height has neither metaphorical nor thematic relevance in the placement of the statues. Simply, it is an altitude that is readily accessible but at the same time lies beyond the realm of everyday life.
According to Gormley, “Horizon Field asks: Where does the human project fit within the evolution of life on this planet?”
Antony Gormley, Horizon Field, Austria, August 2010 - April 2012
The individual sculptures will be mounted at intervals ranging from sixty meters (197 feet) to several miles, looking in all directions but never facing each other.
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For more than 25 years Antony Gormley (born 1950) has revitalized the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body as subject, tool, and material.
His work has been exhibited extensively throughout the UK, and he was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999 and was made an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997.
In 2007 he was awarded the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Trinity College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, and has been a Royal Academician since 2003.
One year on from his acclaimed fourth plinth commission, One & Other Antony Gormley talks to Time Out’s Visual Arts Editor, Ossian Ward, about his new show at White Cube and other recent projects.
The talk can be heard at the Sackler Hall, Museum of London, on June 24 at 6.30pm.
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