Sculpture2000Denver, COMuseum collection
Artwork Record
Quantum Cloud XXXIII
About this work
A standing figure emerges from a cloud of floating stainless-steel rods. It reads as either taking form inside an energy field or breaking apart. It was shown at Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, in 2001.
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
- Dimensions
- 326 × 266.7 × 153 cm (128⅜ × 105 × 60¼ in.)
- Location
- Denver, CO
- Held by
- Denver Art Museum
- Status
- Museum collection
- Credit line
- Funds from NBT Foundation in honor of Lewis I. Sharp, 2001.43
References10
Primary links for Antony Gormley and this work.
