Artwork Record
Quantum Void V
About this work
A continuation of the Quantum Cloud series (2008–10). Rather than marking the body zone with a condensation of steel elements, the body zone is left void and is surrounded by a minimal penumbra of trajectories that suggests an energy field. Gormley describes the series as an attempt to evoke the energy-mass relationship of general relativity in material terms, and to replace the mass of traditional sculpture with a force field. The viewer is invited to walk around each work and project into its empty interior.
Technique
Each work is a three-dimensional web of straight steel bars, in stainless or mild steel, placed along intersecting trajectories around an empty figure-shaped space. Bar sections range from 2 mm to 6 mm square.
Context drawn from the Quantum Void collection.
- Collection
- Quantum Void
- Year
- 2009
- Medium
- Stainless steel bar (3 mm square section)
- Dimensions
- 228 × 184 × 184 cm
References7
Primary links for Antony Gormley and this work.
