But I don't think that's the only thing people like about him. Hopefully we're not quite that self-obsessed. Not yet anyway. I think people like the scale and the humanity of his work as much as they do the spectacle that surrounds it and though, to my mind, his sculptures work better in situ think of Gateshead's Angel of the North or the one hundred figures of Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool it must be said the curators at the RA have done a very good job of turning an exhibition into an experience.
Or even, at a push, an event! There's much more to see and much more to do than there is to read which makes the show quite different to many I'd seen at the Royal Academy over the years.
It seems to me that's just how Gormley wants it. On entering the very first room a sign informs us that "the visitor is centre stage" and calls for "our physical and imaginative participation".
Which is defeated slightly by the security instruction to not to touch, or hug, the works. Gormley believes that art only really comes to life when an audience interacts with it. It seems he's of the school that believes a tree falling in a forest doesn't make a sound unless there's somebody there to hear it.
To aid us in being with the art, in the hear and now, this is the only sign you'll encounter though there is a booklet available as you pass through twelve of the thirteen rooms one is impassable, more of that later that make up the exhibition. Slabworks The idea, quite clearly, is to experience the art, to be with the art. Not to pontificate or read about the art and, I must admit, probably not to write a medium sized length blog about it!
At least I did that afterwards. At the time I did my very best to be present with the art. To observe it, to smile at it, to laugh with it, and, even, when necessary thankfully rarely , to pooh-pooh it. The first couple of rooms 'Slabworks' and 'Early Works' acted as an hors d'ouevre to the heartier fare that Gormley would be serving up once our appetites had been whetted but they also demonstrated how Gormley has always been interested in the human body.
Not necessarily as a living, breathing organism or for its beauty, sexuality, fallibility, and, ultimately, its disposable nature but as, what the artist terms, a "vessel for feeling".
He's been criticised in the past for basing his human sculptures on his own body but in response to that he's been very clear that he's doing that not because he's different but because he is very average. I say different not special because we're all special. Besides, all artists need to work with what they have at hand and if we don't even have free reign over our own bodies then what do we have? Slabworks Gormley's fourteen Slabworks sculptures don't necessarily look like people I've even posed a real person next to one so you can see both the difference and the similarities in scale but it doesn't take long to see that they are, in some way, deconstructed human figures.
Created with extreme precision from hard edged steel slabs and laid out in poses ranging from the upright to the extremely relaxed, the Slabworks are representation simplified to levels just shy of crude. These ur-people retain a sense of dignity and humanity despite being incapable of genuine emotion. Sometimes we dwarf them, sometimes they dwarf us.
They speak to the human desire to see a meaning, and a reason, in everything and yet they are, by their very nature, quite literally as cold as polished steel.
The Slabworks were all made this year but the room containing 'Early Works' lived up to its name for the most part - Mother's Pride V was dated by taking us back, in some instances, over four decades to Gormley's time as a post-graduate at Slade School of Fine Art at London 's UCL. They show a quirkier side to the artist. Not least in his use of apples and bread as materials to create with. They demonstrate Gormley's sense of humour and the small debt he owes and acknowledges to the Italian Arte Povera movement.
Land Sea and Air I makes me think of hot cross buns, Mother's Pride V made me chortle with its falling or somersaulting figure cut from a grid of unappetising looking white sliced bread, and One Apple from made use of fifty-three lead cases to show the growth of an apple from petal fall to maturity.
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