{"id":50463,"date":"2025-08-07T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50463\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:23:05","slug":"antony-gormley-explores-architecture-of-human-form-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50463\/","title":{"rendered":"antony gormley explores architecture of human form in new book"},"content":{"rendered":"

artist monograph to publish fall 2025<\/p>\n

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Antony Gormley<\/a>, Body Buildings is an upcoming monograph that documents the British artist\u2019s recent solo exhibition at Galleria Continua in Beijing. The book<\/a> further reflects on his three-decade engagement with the cultural and architectural landscape of China. Set for U.S. release by Skira on October 7th, 2025, the hardcover volume brings together sculpture<\/a>, drawing, and archival material to explore the evolving relationship between body and built environment.<\/p>\n

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The book is organized around the exhibition Body Buildings, which ran from November 14th, 2024 \u2014 April 14th, 2025. It foregrounds Gormley\u2019s use of clay and iron \u2014 materials fundamental to both construction and the earth itself \u2014 as a medium for probing the spatial conditions of urban life. At the center is Resting Place II (2024), an installation that anchors a broader sequence of recent works developed in response to the verticality and density of contemporary architectural contexts.<\/p>\n

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Antony Gormley, Body Buildings, cover | image courtesy SKIRA<\/p>\n

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Sculpture as Spatial Inquiry<\/p>\n

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Photographic documentation of the Body Buildings exhibition<\/a> situates Antony Gormley\u2019s sculptures within the architecture of the gallery and the city beyond it. These pieces, often geometric and massed from block-like volumes, trace the human figure within architectural constraints, suggesting a reciprocal influence between physical form and structural order. The sculptures are never illustrative. Instead, they operate as spatial propositions, articulating how the body occupies the space or yields to the logic of construction.<\/p>\n

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This line of inquiry is extended through the artist<\/a>\u2019s drawings, many of which appear in published form for the first time in this volume. With media ranging from walnut ink to blood, the drawings are investigative rather than preparatory, offering a daily practice that parallels and deepens the sculptural process. Their tactile surfaces and sedimentary layers evoke geological and corporeal processes, reinforcing the shared material language between human and environment.<\/p>\n

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the book documents Antony Gormley\u2019s Beijing exhibition, Body Buildings<\/p>\n

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anthony gormley\u2019s dialogue with china<\/p>\n

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Alongside documentation of recent work, Antony Gormley, Body Buildings includes an image-based essay that traces the artist\u2019s sustained relationship with China and its architecture \u2014 from his first research trip in 1995 to major installations such as Asian Field (2003), Event Horizon (2007), and Host (2016). The photo essay, drawn from Gormley\u2019s own archive, follows a route from the Forbidden City to Xi\u2019an\u2019s Terracotta Army, recording sites that have continued to inform the conceptual and formal underpinnings of his work.<\/p>\n

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The publication includes newly commissioned essays by curator Hou Hanru and literary historian Stephen Greenblatt. Their contributions contextualize the evolution of this body of work within both regional history and a broader philosophical frame, locating Gormley\u2019s inquiry within global conversations about embodiment, urbanism, and scale.<\/p>\n

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sculptures and drawings explore body and architecture<\/p>\n

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clay and iron evoke shared material origins<\/p>\n

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a photo essay traces the artist\u2019s early trips to China<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"artist monograph to publish fall 2025 \u00a0 Antony Gormley, Body Buildings is an upcoming monograph that documents the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[42675,449,458,459,64,63,460,42676,134,3811],"class_list":{"0":"post-50463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-antony-gormley","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-designboom-book-reports","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-sculpture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}