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Antony Gormley

Amazoian Field

English sculptor, Antony Gormley‘s Amazonian Field has been installed a number of times, most recently at the Royal Academy of Art’s 2009 exhibition, Earth: Art of a changing world.  A vast number of small human figures fill a room and pour through the door, looking up at us with large eyes, expectantly, probingly. Intentionally crafted from the earth itself, the clay figures press upon us the vastness of collection is a reminder of our population explosion, as well as an invitation for collective action. Gormley has thought much about the role of art in a changing climate, stating in a recent piece for the British Council: ‘Is it possible to re-think art and take it from this finished-object status and make it into a verb, a  participatory, open space, a place of transformation and the exchange of ideas and reflection on our state and status?’

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