Greetings from Liverpool
Another Place
On Crosby beach north of Liverpool one hundred cast-iron, life-size figures stand looking out to sea. The figures each weigh 650 kilos and are made from casts of the artist Anthony Gormley’s own body. They are spread out along three kilometres of the foreshore and stretch almost one kilometre out to sea.
According to Gormley, Another Place harnesses the ebb and flow of the tide to explore man’s relationship with nature:
‘The seaside is a good place to do this. Here time is tested by tide, architecture by the elements and the prevalence of sky seems to question the earth’s substance … This sculpture exposes to light and time the nakedness of a particular and peculiar body. It is no hero, no ideal, just the industrially reproduced body of a middle-aged man trying to remain standing and trying to breathe.’
2 Comments
wetanddustyroads
That’s a very interesting ‘exhibition’ (if it can be called that). And 100 figures over 3km – wow! I also think that if an uninformed person doesn’t know it’s artwork, they could be quite worried about the people standing so still in the water!
Teresa
This looks interesting seeing these people just standing there.