Antony Gormley...

5:09 p.m.

"The responsibility of the art of our time is to reflect on and provide instruments for examination and self-awareness."

24/04/24 - The quote above belongs to Antony Gormley (United Kingdom, 1950), an artist who investigates with his works the relationship of the human body with the space that surrounds it. Through this experience, in which physical existence is deeply (and even crucially) engaged with the environment that surrounds it, he provokes opposite feelings in the viewer.

In the exhibition Critical Mass, at the Rodin Museum in Paris, the bodies acquire different positions, isolated or on top of each other. In a first approximation, the visitor (who enters this immersive installation) may experience a sensation of violence, as if these representations of people had been tortured and then hung from the ceiling. In other rooms the sculptures adopt positions of prayer or rest. The installation as a whole overflows with dynamism.

The exhibition presents 60 pieces, all representations of the human body, which were distributed in the museum rooms and in the garden. The similarity with our own materiality confronts us in every step we take as spectators, although perhaps we would never adopt the contradictory and even ridiculous positions of Gormley's work.