Aug 17, 2015
The works of Antony Gormley
Self portrait with Aphrodite, Mikhail Piotrovsky // Still Standing, Margaret Iversen
The gods have become mortals. Olympian gods and mythical heroes have been brought down to earth. We no longer gaze up in awe at the remote, idealised forms on their plinths or their pedestals. Rather, they inhabit a space continuous with our own. Like fallen angels. Now we see them clearly, once from an aesthetic distance now naked and exposed. Those who pretend to be whole or pretend to be a point of absolute point of reference is under interrogation.