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Antony Gormley, 60-year-old Londoner, works that there are more than 25 years the human figure in sculptures

based on vectors, through investigation of the body and the memory, and a vehicle for the exploration of self and other space. He works with a variety of materials including lead, terracotta, concrete, iron and steel. It uses his body itself like material, subject and tool, developing a recurrent preoccupation with the human condition and global warming. His works are huge and always with sculptures of the human form to explain the conflict between man and the physical worlds and spiritual. But the best known are: The Angel of North, in Gateshead, northern England, the figure describes a man with open arms that resemble wings, another well-known "Another Place", 100 figures of men scattered at sea on Crosby Beach in Liverpool and the sculpture "Exposure" that depicts a man crouching in Lelystad, the Netherlands.

But for me, the most interesting was the living sculpture "The One and the Other" were volunteers who were standing on a plinth one hour each, took place in Trafalgar Square, and Londres.
Gormley describes his work as an attempt to materialize the space under the bonnet we live in, not trying to use the body as an object but as a place, a trace of a real event of a person in a particular time and place, he thinks of sculpture as a memory of what happened, such as a photo.

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