Antony Gormley
One and other
6 July - 14 October 2009
One & Other was a living monument in which every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days without a break, different people occupied the plinth. Antony Gormley asked the people of the UK to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, a space normally reserved for statues of kings and generals, in an image of themselves, and a representation of the whole of humanity.
Antony Gormley was born in London and graduated from Cambridge in 1971. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995. Gormley’s work is concerned with the body as a place of memory and transformation, and a vehicle for the exploration of self and other in space. He works with a variety of materials including lead, terracotta, concrete, iron and steel. Since the late 1980s, Gormley has undertaken numerous public sculpture commissions including The Angel of the North, the famous landmark in the north-east of England.
