Installation view: Antony Gormley, Hayward Gallery, 2007. Photo: Stephen White (2007) by Antony GormleyHayward Gallery
For this exhibition, the artist’s first major showing in a public gallery in London, Antony Gormley presented a series of large-scale installations, including several newly commissioned works that dramatically engaged with Hayward Gallery’s architecture.
Installation view: Antony Gormley: Blind Light, Hayward Gallery, 2007. Photo: Stephen White (2007) by Antony GormleyHayward Gallery
Installation view: Antony Gormley: Blind Light, Hayward Gallery, 2007. Photo: Stephen White (2007) by Antony GormleyHayward Gallery
Antony Gormley, Diagram of Allotment II (2007) by Hayward GalleryHayward Gallery
Installation view: Antony Gormley: Blind Light, Hayward Gallery, 2007. Photo: Stephen White (2007) by Antony GormleyHayward Gallery
Taking the body as its point of departure, the exhibition explored the ways in which we orient ourselves spatially; how we react when disoriented and how we relate to architecture and the built environment.
Installation view: Antony Gormley: Blind Light, Hayward Gallery, 2007. Photo: Stephen White (2007) by Antony GormleyHayward Gallery
Installation view: Antony Gormley: Blind Light, Hayward Gallery, 2007. Photo: Stephen White (2007) by Antony GormleyHayward Gallery
Diagram of Antony Gormley's Blind Light, Hayward Gallery, 2007 (2007) by Hayward GalleryHayward Gallery
Installation Plan for Antony Gormley: Blind Light, Hayward Gallery, 2007 (2007) by Hayward GalleryHayward Gallery
Installation plan for Antony Gormley's Blind Light (2007).
Test of Antony Gormley's Blind Light, Hayward Gallery, 2007 (2007) by Hayward GalleryHayward Gallery
Test of Antony Gormley's Blind Light (2007).
Blind Light (2007) by Antony GormleyHayward Gallery
Installation view: Antony Gormley, Hayward Gallery, 2007. Photo: Stephen White (2007) by Antony GormleyHayward Gallery
Alongside large-scale new commissions, the exhibition featured the artist’s earlier sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs. It also took Gormley’s work beyond the gallery with the ambitious project Event Horizon, which featured 30 life-size casts of the artist’s body sited on the rooftops of surrounding buildings and on Waterloo Bridge, each one visible from the gallery’s sculpture terraces.
Installation view: Event Horizon (2007), Antony Gormley, Hayward Gallery, 2007 (2008) by Antony GormleyHayward Gallery
Installation view: Event Horizon (2007), Antony Gormley, Hayward Gallery, 2007 (2007) by Antony GormleyHayward Gallery
Installation view: Event Horizon (2007), Antony Gormley, Hayward Gallery, 2007. Photo: Stephen White (2007) by Antony GormleyHayward Gallery
Layout of Antony Gormley: Blind Light.
Exhibition Guide for Antony Gormley: Blind Light, Hayward Gallery, 2007 Exhibition Guide for Antony Gormley: Blind Light, Hayward Gallery, 2007 (2007) by Hayward GalleryHayward Gallery
Exhibition guide for Antony Gormley: Blind Light.
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