Antony Gormley’s New Giant Figure on the Dyke in the Netherlands

LELYSTAD.- After 5 years of planning and development the city of Lelystad in the Netherlands presents the 6th Flevoland landscape project: Antony Gormley’s Exposure. Permanently sited 1 kilometer from the shore of Lelystad on the dyke that connects Friesland and Flevoland, this is the artist’s largest and most complex singular sculptural project, standing 25 meters high and weighing 60 tonnes. The work celebrates a transformation in Gormley’s attempt to evoke the body as a place, transforming his sculptural language from a defined closed surface to an open 3-dimensional drawing-in-space that maps the inner volume of the body and establishes a link between body and space at large. The mass formally associated with the monumental Angel of the North is here replaced by a transparent and porous tracery through which we can register the changing conditions of light and weather and through which an intimate

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