antony gormley: aperature exhibition at xavier hufkens gallery, brussels

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over the last three years, artist antony gormley has been experimenting with cell aggregates
of nesting polyhedra in both solid and space-frame forms turning the space of the body
into an open framework of tetrahedral, cubic, dodecahedral and more complex polygons
which gormley says, 'achieves a breakthrough when released from a bounding skin.'

the result is the work 'aperture'. the main room of the xavier hufkens gallery, from floor to ceiling
and wall to wall, will be filled with polyhedral space-frames in which the viewer is invited
to wander through. negating the orthogonal geometries of regular architecture, this aggregate
surrounds a void: a human-shaped cave at around ten times life size. at rest, the same body
is made massive and life-size and lies on the floor of the gallery up a short flight of stairs.
the other works in the exhibition explore bubble geometry through standing and falling forms
in both solid and cloud formations.

'aperature' is a relationship with a room, seaming a gap in space filled with the behavioral
geometry of the bubble matrix. the outer edges of this form dynamically grasp the air.

gormley's work has always explored the body as a place rather than an object.
in aperture he takes us into a new zone of structural complexity, while at the same time
evoking the body as an open space of possibility connected with the earth as well as
the space at large. the main installation of the exhibition could be conceived of as a
space / time map in which hundreds of spheres are held in space by drawing a constellation
between them within which the body of the viewer is allowed free passage.

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