Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950 and spent three years in his early twenties studying Buddhism in India and Sri Lanka, shaping his belief that the body is the first habitat. He lives and works in London and is known for major public works such as Angel of the North and Another Place. His practice moved from lead body-cases using his own body as material to digital experiments that fragment and reconstruct the human form through architectural geometry. He is presenting simultaneous exhibitions titled Inextricable in Seoul, and a major US museum survey opens at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Collaboration with Tadao Ando produced the permanent installation Ground (2025) at Museum SAN investigating how space and time animate the human form, and earlier projects included planned twin winged figures for Seoul and Pyongyang.
Born in London in 1950, Antony Gormley spent three years in his early twenties studying Buddhism in India and Sri Lanka, an experience that shaped his belief that the body is our first habitat. Gormley, who lives and works in London, is perhaps best known for public works such as Angel of the North (1988) and Another Place (2005), where 100 cast-iron figures face the sea.
It is somewhat unexpected that an artist of Gormley's stature, with his deep Asian connections, is only now having his first solo exhibition in Seoul. This September, coinciding with Frieze Seoul, he presents Inextricable at White Cube and Thaddaeus Ropac simultaneously, exploring how urban infrastructure shapes consciousness in cities-where over half of humanity now lives. Just weeks later, his first major US museum survey opens at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
I've been coming to Korea for quite a long time, for various reasons. I did this project a long time ago with the Kim Dae-jung Foundation that was supposed to be on the central post office in Seoul, and then on top of a bridge in Pyongyang, North Korea. It was a utopian project where these two identical winged figures would look at each other across almost 200km, but they would be on the same axis. That was a long project tha
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