Another Place Anthony Gormley Analysis

Sir Antony Mark David Gormley is a British Sculptor. He was born on August 30, 1950. He is known for sculptures in Famous Gallery’s. Antony Gormley was the youngest of seven children born to a German mother and an Irish father. Gormley grew up in a Roman Catholic family living in Hampstead Garden suburb. He attended Ample Forth College a boarding school in Yorkshire, before reading archaeology, anthropology, and the history of art at Trinity College from 1968 to 1971. He travelled to India and Sir Lanka to learn more about Buddhism between 1971 and 1974. After attending Saint University College in London between 1977 and n1979.
Gormley career began with a solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 198. Almost all of 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 materialize the place at the other side of appearance where we all live. Plenty of his work body based on mounds taken from his own body, or the closet experience of matter that I will ever have and the only part of materials world 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.
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It consists of 100 cast iron sculpture of the artist’s own body facing towards the sea. The sculpture was established in 1997. Another Place is a subject of local controversy in Mersey Side. Some consider the statues to be pornographic due to the inclusion of a simplified penis on the statues; others see them as beautiful pieces of art which have brought tourist revenue to local areas. Also the sculpture has been located in several places, because the sculpture got many complainants and being called pornography. So till this day Another Place sculpture is located on Cosby Beach near