In Iondon, August 30 1950 born The artist David Gormley, his name in full is Antony Mark . he is a British sculptor . His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998 Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007, around Madison Square in New York City, in 2010, in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2012, and in Hong Kongin 2015–16.
In 2008 The Daily Telegraph ranked Gormley number 4 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture .
in 1981 Gormley's career began with a solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery
. 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.
Gormley describes his work as "an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we all live." Many of his works are based on moulds taken from his own body, or "the closest experience of matter that I will ever have and the only part of the material world that I live inside.
His work attempts to treat the body not as an object but a place and in making works that enclose the space of a particular body to identify a condition common to all human beings. The work is not symbolic but indexical – a trace of a real event of a real body in time .
The 2006 Sydney Biennale featured Gormley's Asian Field, an installation of 180,000 small clay figurines crafted by 350 Chinese villagers in five days from 100 tons of red clay The appropriation of others' works caused minor controversy and some of the figurines were stolen in protest. Also in 2006, the burning of Gormley's 25-metre high The Waste Man formed the zenith of the Margate Exodus. ]
In 2007, Gormley's Event Horizon, consisting of 31 life-size and anatomically correct casts of his body, four in cast iron and 27 in fiberglass, was installed on top of prominent buildings along London's South Bank, and installed in locations around New York City's Madison Square
HIS Major works
Bed (1981) - purchased by the Tate Gallery.]
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- Sound II (1986) – in the crypt of Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England
- (1988) – Sculpture proposed in the 1980s for the city of Leeds. A maquette for the sculpture can be seen in Leeds City Art Gallery.
- Field (1991; and subsequent recreations)
- Iron:Man (1993) – Victoria Square, Birmingham, England
- Havmann (1995) – Mo i Rana, Arctic Circle City, Norway
- Another Place (1997) – permanently installed at Crosby Beach near Liverpool, England7
- Quantum Cloud (1999)– Greenwich, London, England
- Broken Column (1999–2003) – Stavanger, Norway
- Angel of the North (1998) – Low Fell (overlooking the A1 and A167 roads), Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England
- Present Time (2001) – at Mansfield College, Oxford
- Planets (2002) – at the British Library, London.]
- Filter (2002) – acquired by Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England, in 2009
- Inside Australia (2003) permanent exhibition at Lake Ballard, Western Australia
- Time Horizon – the Archaeological Park of Scolacium near Catanzaro in Calabria, Southern Italy0]
- Ferment (2007)]
- Blind Light (2007), Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London
- Event Horizon (2007) – along the South Bank of the Thames, London, England; (2010) around Madison Square, New York City; 2012 in São Paulo, Brazil; 2015-16 in Hong Kong
- Reflection II (2008) – acquired by DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, in 2009
- Another Time XI (2009) – Gormley's sculpture on top of Exeter College, Oxford, overlooking Broad Street]
- Horizon Field (2010–2012) – sculpture installation in the Austrian Alps.
- Exposure (2010) – Lelystad, Netherlands
- Cloud Chain (2010) – Les Archives Nationales, Paris, France
- Mothership with Standing Matter[43] (2011) Lillehammer, Norway
- Witness (2011) – on the piazza of the British Library, London; commissioned by English PEN to mark their 90th anniversary.]
- Horizon Field Hamburg (2012) – Deichtorhallen, Germany
- Stay (2015/16) – Christchurch, New Zealand]
- SIGHT (2019) – Delos Island, Mykonos, Greece; organized and commissioned by NEON Organization and presented in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades of the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports.
