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A major exhibition of seventeen new works by leading British
sculptor Antony Gormley will accompany his radical re-hang of the
Dionysus Hall in the classical Greek and Roman galleries of the
State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia, opening on 23 September,
2011.
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The Curator's Commentary
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As part of the exhibition, meetings have been organised
with Antony Gormley and the exhibition curators as well as discussions
and lectures, a competition for the best photograph taken by students
from the Youth Educational Centre and many others.
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"For me, that's the most important reason for doing
this show: confronting the way in which statuary and sculpture have
been used in history. Statuary was seen to be the place of inscription,
of ideal and eternal values... I think that we are in a very different
time. My work demands a certain form of participation. They are
almost empty bodies. They describe a space at large that has a certain
configuration that you might recognise maybe to do with anxiety
or with alertness. These void spaces are waiting for your feeling,
your projection..."
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Video Interview with Antony Gormley
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