Sculpture2000Denver, COMuseum collection
Artwork Record
Quantum Cloud XIX
About this work
Hundreds of welded stainless-steel rods make a figure that seems to burst outward into the space around it. The sculpture looks almost weightless, which hides both its real weight and the labour of welding it.
Technique
Each work is built from short straight steel sections joined into tetrahedral units. A computer random-walk algorithm places the units, starting from points on the surface of an enlarged scan of Gormley’s own body. The figure remains as a dense "residual outline" at the centre. The concept comes from quantum physicist Basil Hiley’s ideas of pre-space as a structure beneath space-time and matter.
Technique drawn from the Quantum Cloud collection.
- Collection
- Quantum Cloud
- Year
- 2000
- Medium
- Stainless steel bar
- Location
- Denver, CO
- Held by
- Denver Art Museum
- Status
- Museum collection
- Credit line
- Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, fractional and promised gift to the Denver Art Museum, 2001.738
References9
Primary links for Antony Gormley and this work.
