Anthony Gormley - A Challenge?

[girasol]

I didn't want to relocate to the Southbank but since yesterday I'm really glad I did. 31 statues by Anthony Gormley have sprung up in the area, on tops of buildings, over the river, sometimes if you look carefully you can see 2, no, 3, oh no, 4 statues! If you look from the right angle.

So, my new pastime for my lunch break is to try and capture all 31 of them. I snapped a few today and I'm about to count how many I got.

If anyone else wants to help me on this search and point out/take photos of statues not yet photographed, that'd would be great!

So here are the first few I found today, I'll try and put the exact location where they are (as long as I know the name, of course, feel free to add comments/corrections to the photos)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasmatika/sets/72157600171572494/


Happy searching

 

[Biddlybee]

Would've been harder if he'd used his little people from Field

 

[Dubversion]

excellent stuff!

i'm going on a hunt

 

[girasol]

I counted 11 and named them in the order that I found them. Will venture out further tomorrow

 

[zenie]

He he they're great aren't they?

Been watching them on the telly but not walked down and had a look yet.

*Goees to look at Iemanja's photo's*

We should do lunch if you're at Southbank now

 

[Pieface]

They're a bit eerie - like they're watching something you can't see coming....

 

[Blagsta]

I think they're cool, but I can't help feeling it's a bit of a rehash of "Another Place" on Crosby beach.

 

[Dubversion]

I think they're cool, but I can't help feeling it's a bit of a rehash of "Another Place" on Crosby beach.

but isn't that part of the point with Gormley, that he has ongoing themes that he places in different contexts? Don't think it's a 'rehash', really

 

[big eejit]

They look the same as his iron men casts in Another Place on Crosby Beach:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stringberd/225368231/

 

[maldwyn]

He's got a show at the Hayward: Thursday 17 May 2007 - Sunday 19 August 2007 - £8 (£4 on a Monday)
http://www.haywardgallery.org.uk/

 

[big eejit]

Snap!

 

[Blagsta]

but isn't that part of the point with Gormley, that he has ongoing themes that he places in different contexts?

Is it? I dunno enough about him. Where is the Angel of the North recontextualised?

 

[girasol]

He he they're great aren't they?

Been watching them on the telly but not walked down and had a look yet.

*Goees to look at Iemanja's photo's*

We should do lunch if you're at Southbank now

Yes, we should!

Some of them look like they're people about to jump off a building...

E2a: If anyone can help out with the names of the buildings, that would be lovely, as I don't know them yet.

 

[Dubversion]

Is it? I dunno enough about him. Where is the Angel of the North recontextualised?

Well the Angel of the North is a different matter in some ways - because it's very much about the location it's in (made on the shipyards etc). But the figure itself - sans wings - is pretty much the same figure that crops up in most of his work...

 

[Pieface]

Is it? I dunno enough about him. Where is the Angel of the North recontextualised?

it's a monolithic human statue gazing over the landscape - it's like his figures at the beach and these ones in London.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Is this a permanent work?

What I like most about Anthony Gormley's work is the way he manages to make his work appear as though it's genuinely done for the benefit of the general public. The way statues just rise out of a pavement or, a beach or, any other public space. No plinth, no grandeur, no elitism - it's most definitely art for us. Very accessible as they say.

 

[Dubversion]

very true

 

[Blagsta]

it's a monolithic human statue gazing over the landscape - it's like his figures at the beach and these ones in London.

Fairynuff.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Marvelous, I like the whole spirtit of Anthony Gormley's work. I too want to know if these figures will be left permanently there or is it just for a while. I guess the answer is just a click or two away as I am on a computer.

I wonder if anyone has reported a mysterious figure or a potential suicide on any of these roofs. I can just imagine someone spending ages talking softly and trying to coach a statue to remain calm and go back inside.

 

[Fez909]

I like Gormley. Good stuff, imo. I saw the field at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and it was so tempting to steal one! Not that I ever would, of course. But the thought was there.

 

[Fez909]

So here are the first few I found today, I'll try and put the exact location where they are (as long as I know the name, of course, feel free to add comments/corrections to the photos)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasmatika/sets/72157600171572494/

What's that building in the photo which has Waterloo Bridge in the foreground, with what looks like an American flag flying?

Looks just like a squashed version of Leeds University! Or most likely, Leeds University looks like a tall, thin version of that.

 

[maldwyn]

What's that building in the photo which has Waterloo Bridge in the foreground, with what looks like an American flag flying?

Shell Mex House

 

[harpo]

Everyone in the area loves Another Place and in fact local pressure made Sefton council buy it recently to guarantee permanence. They moved a few inland to shut the health and safety people up and tbh the sands can be dangerous there, out to sea, but it's just fab to see the silent wondering figures staring out. You can make up your own story about them. All the better for the fact that Crosby is a little-known beach with little else to recommend it except for the views of Liverpool docks to the left and the Welsh hills visible on a good day.

 

[Fez909]

Shell Mex House

Thanks.

From that link:

On 17 May 2006 The Times reported that the building was for sale and that the Indian-Kenyan Kandhari family were the front-runners in the battle to buy the it from the present owners, Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz. It was said that they had offered £530,000,000 for the building but were competing with other interested groups, including Menorah, the Israeli insurer, an Irish company, and several British companies. An offer believed to be £520,000,000 ($1.02 billion) was made in December 2006 by Istithmar, the investment agency of the Dubai government, who withdrew their offer before completion.

Five hundred and twenty million quid!!! Fucking hell!

 

[girasol]

Shell Mex House

Double thanks, was wondering the name of that building myself.

 

[sojourner]

Everyone in the area loves Another Place and in fact local pressure made Sefton council buy it recently to guarantee permanence. They moved a few inland to shut the health and safety people up and tbh the sands can be dangerous there, out to sea, but it's just fab to see the silent wondering figures staring out. You can make up your own story about them. All the better for the fact that Crosby is a little-known beach with little else to recommend it except for the views of Liverpool docks to the left and the Welsh hills visible on a good day.

Well the H&S bods had a point. I stupidly went into some wet sand to see one of the figures up close to see the sea from 'his' perspective as it were, and was up to my knees in miliseconds. Quite scary actually. Didn't go down too well in the pub afterwards either, being covered in wet sand and mud

 

[Mrs Miggins]

A friend of mine said the other night that she doesn't like Gormley's figures because they seem so empty that they make her think of mindless facism...

 

[foamy]

i used to live around the corner from Antony Gormleys studio in peckham and used to see him about in his blue cardigan quite a bit

He also designed the bollards on Bellenden Road.

looking forward to finding these new sculptures though, looks

 

[Stanley Edwards]

A friend of mine said the other night that she doesn't like Gormley's figures because they seem so empty that they make her think of mindless facism...

Ooooh!

I like them for the very reason they're (all Gormley stuff) given to us. At least it's a starting point. His works are very empty and they are 'this is you'.

Your friend has a point maybe.

However, what I get out of Anthony Gormley's work is a melancholic moment of solitude. I like my own time and so do his figures.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I agreed that she probably had a point but his figures make me feel contemplative because of their "emptiness" rather than frightened. But therein lies the wonder of great art - no? Individual interpretation and multiple meaning....

Maybe she has a problem with "alone" and "quiet" which is what many of his works are