I recently went to London and came across an Antony Gormley (first picture). The second one is of an exhibition in Manchester where his work was hanging from the ceiling over the stairs.
Gormley describes his work as "an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we all live." Many of his works are based on moulds taken from his own body, or "the closest experience of matter that I will ever have and the only part of the material world that I live inside."
His work attempts to treat the body not as an object but a place. The work is not symbolic but a trace of a real event of a real body in time.
Gormley won the Turner Prize in 1994 with Field for the British Isles. He was quoted as saying that he was "embarrassed and guilty to have won – it's like being a Holocaust survivor. In the moment of winning there is a sense the others have been diminished. I know artists who've been seriously knocked off their perches through disappointment."
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