Twenty-nine of Antony Gormley’s anthropomorphic figures will stand on Delos until the end of October
father of geometry, ordained that the centre of a circle must be a fixed point. The Greek island of Delos, a thirsty patch of rock and thin soil that lies, roughly, at the midpoint of a ring of islands known as the Cyclades, violated this rule. The ancients imagined it to be drifting perpetually. It was said to have gained a fixed location only after serving as the birthplace of Apollo, god of wisdom and light, and probably also of Artemis, the moon goddess.
Twenty-nine of Sir Antony’s anthropomorphic figures will stand on Delos until the end of October. Some are visibly cast from human bodies , others are an assembly of brick-based shapes which only approximate to. Five of the works were made specially for the exhibition; the rest were produced during his 20-year study of the relationship between bodies and their environments.
For reasons of both practicality and cultural politics, the installation has itself been a big, expensive feat. For a start, eight of the sculptures had to be delivered by chartered helicopter. Among the organisers of the show, named “Sight”, is Neon, a foundation established by Dimitris Daskalopoulos, a Greek businessman. In an unusually seamless case, for Greece, of public-private collaboration, Neon has worked with the department of the culture ministry that oversees the Cyclades.
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