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Antony Gormley Exposure Statue
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Jellien & Sicko
April 1, 2018
special art - a 26 meter tall squatting man overlooking Markermeer
John
September 25, 2022
Unveiled in 2010, the giant sculpture took six long years to create due to multiple funding and manufacturing problems. The basic form of the sculpture is of a crouching man, which was modeled after Gormley himself who was cast in the position to get it just right. The overall shape is evident from afar, but as you get closer, it begins to lose its continuity as it’s true form reveals itself. The 85-foot tall figure is actually made of some 2,000 girders of differing length, roughly bolted together with over 5,400 bolts. The girders were each hand cut in a sort of ordered chaos that keeps the work from finding any symmetry. The closer one gets to the statue, the more it simply looks like a jumble of metal beams.
Unveiled in 2010, the giant sculpture took six long years to create due to multiple funding and manufacturing problems. The basic form of the sculpture is of a crouching man, which was modeled after Gormley himself who was cast in the position to get it just right. The overall shape is evident from…
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Lelystad, FL