56-1037: White Cube is a contemporary art gallery founded by Jay Jopling in London in 1993. The gallery has two branches in London: White Cube Mason's Yard in central London and White Cube Bermondsey in South East London; White Cube Hong Kong, in Central , Hong Kong Island ; White Cube Paris, at 10 avenue Matignon in Paris; and White Cube West Palm Beach, which opened at 2512 Florida Avenue in 2020 and operates annually in West Palm Beach, Florida, from winter through to spring. In October 2023, White Cube opened public gallery spaces and private viewing rooms in New York City's Upper East Side , in
112-485: A Fourth Plinth commission, an invitation for members of the public, chosen by lot, to spend one hour on the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square in London. This "living art" happening initially attracted much media attention. It even became a topic of discussion on the long-running BBC radio drama series The Archers , where Gormley made an appearance as himself. Throughout the 2000s, Gormley has interrogated
168-594: A bit longer seeing the tide come in and how many of them disappear. And then you're encouraged to linger further until they're revealed again. In September 2015, Gormley had his first sculpture installed in New Zealand. Stay is a group of identical cast-iron human form sculptures, with the first installed in the Avon River / Ōtākaro in Christchurch 's central city , and the other sculpture installed in
224-522: A body and recalled the people Gormley saw asleep in India wrapped in saris or dhotis . After attending Saint Martin's School of Art and Goldsmiths in London from 1974, he completed his studies with a postgraduate course in sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art , between 1977 and 1979. Gormley's work as a student used natural materials such as stone and wood. Gormley's career began with
280-436: A conference room are on the upper floors. On some occasions exhibitions have been installed on the grass of the square, one example being Hirst's large sculpture (22 ft; 6.7 m) Charity , based on the old Spastic Society's model, which shows a girl in a leg brace holding a charity collecting box. White Cube Hoxton Square closed at the end of 2012. White Cube also offers artists' editions. In September 2006 it opened
336-640: A group of 60 enormous steel figures – called Expansion Field . The work was shown at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern . In May 2015 five life-sized sculptures, Land , were placed near the centre and at four compass points of the UK in a commission by the Landmark Trust to celebrate its 50th anniversary. They are at Lowsonford ( Warwickshire ), Lundy ( Bristol Channel ), Saddell Bay ( Scotland ),
392-497: A limited edition vinyl album of ambient sounds from his studio for Record Store Day titled Sounds of the Studio . It consisted of two tracks (one on each side) titled Sounds of the Studio (Part 1) and Sounds of the Studio (Part 2) . It came with an inner with a monochrome print of his studio on one side and text by the artist with a photo on the other. In 2019, Gormley populated the island of Delos with iron "bodyforms" with
448-484: A man who was pivotal in changing the course of all our lives. It is not about the memorialisation of a death, but about a celebration of the opportunities that a life allowed". Gormley's first solo exhibition in New York , USA , in over eight years opened at White Cube and ran until June 2024. The artist exhibited a new site-specific installation titled Aerial , from which the exhibition took its name. This sculpture
504-595: A newly designed space created by the London-based architectural studio Carmody Groarke, featured a selection of paintings by the German artist Georg Baselitz . In 2018 White Cube opened an office in Manhattan , which people could visit by appointment only. In 2019, the gallery set up a presence in the 8th arrondissement of Paris . By 2023, the gallery announced plans for a 300 m (3,230 sq ft) space in
560-592: A number of large-scale exhibitions, including Living Time at TAG Art Museum in Qingdao, China , and Critical Mass at Musée Rodin in Paris, France , which marked the first time that a living artist has been invited to exhibit in all areas of the museum, including the Hôtel Biron . As part of the exhibition, Gormley showed his major artwork Critical Mass II , a sculpture comprising 60 cast iron bodies, in and around
616-455: A second site at 25–26 Mason's Yard , off Duke Street, St James's , home of the original White Cube gallery, on a plot previously occupied by an electricity sub-station. The 1,000 m (11,000 sq ft) gallery, designed by MRJ Rundell & Associates, is the first free-standing building to be built in the St James's area for more than 30 years. In October 2011 White Cube Bermondsey
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#1732787763092672-506: A solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1981. In this exhibition, Gormley showed a series of works that were concerned with surfaces, skins and inner structures, such as Natural Selection , a ten metre row of objects, including tools, fruits, weapons and vegetables, encased in lead, and Room , an enclosure reminiscent of a barbed-wire fence made from a set of the artist's clothes. Gormley then turned his attention to
728-660: A three-floor building at 1002 Madison Avenue. The Hoxton Square space in the East End of London closed at the end of 2012 and the São Paulo gallery in 2015. White Cube is a gallery-owned and run by the art dealer Jay Jopling (an Old Etonian and son of a Conservative MP) who, until September 2008, was married to artist Sam Taylor-Wood . It was first opened in a small, square room in May 1993 in Duke Street, St James's ,
784-594: A traditional art dealing street in the West End of London. In that location there was a gallery rule that an artist could only be exhibited once. The gallery achieved its reputation by being the first to give one person shows to many of the Young British Artists (YBAs), including Tracey Emin and Gavin Turk . In April 2000 it moved to 48 Hoxton Square, a 1920s building that had previously been occupied by
840-726: Is a British sculptor. His works include the Angel of the North , a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool ; and Event Horizon , a multipart site installation which premiered in London in 2007, then subsequently in Madison Square in New York City (2010), São Paulo , Brazil (2012), and Hong Kong (2015–16). Gormley
896-416: Is a prime site with a central area of grass and trees, which the vicinity is mostly lacking. White Cube previews were open to the public and crowds used to fill the square on such occasions. Its publicly accessible interior had a small reception area, which lead onto a 250-m exhibition area downstairs, two storeys in height. Another smaller exhibition space upstairs often showed a different artist. Offices and
952-653: Is an English art dealer and gallerist . He is the founder of White Cube . Jeremy Michael Jopling is the son of Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling , a Conservative politician who served for some time as Minister for Agriculture in the Conservative Government led by Margaret Thatcher . Jopling was brought up in Yorkshire and educated at Eton and the University of Edinburgh , where he studied English literature and history of art, and his first job
1008-463: Is set over two floors and has a ceiling height of over 4.5 metres. The space was designed by London-based architects Maybank and Matthews. White Cube São Paulo opened in December 2012 in a converted warehouse in the centre of the city, on a three-year lease. The 460 m (5,000 sq ft) gallery launched after a one-off project in the space by Antony Gormley , organised in conjunction with
1064-739: Is £3,401,250 for a maquette of the Angel of the North , set at Christie's , London, on 14 October 2011. While at the Slade School of Fine Art, Gormley met Vicken Parsons , who was to become his assistant, and in 1980, his wife, as well as a successful artist in her own right. The couple have a daughter and two sons. Gormley is a patron of Paintings in Hospitals , a charity that provides art for health and social care in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. In June 2022 Gormley said that he had applied for German citizenship , to which he
1120-649: The Gangnam-gu neighbourhood of Seoul . The gallery is situated in the same building as the Horim Art Centre, notable for its extensive collection of Korean modern art and antiquities, in an attempt to align White Cube more closely with the existing Korean art scene and cultural heritage. White Cube opened its first New York City gallery on Madison Avenue in Manhattan in October 2023. White Cube represents several living artists, including: In addition,
1176-650: The Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for the set design for Babel (Words) at Sadler's Wells in collaboration with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet. He was the recipient of the Obayashi Prize in 2012 and is the 2013 Praemium Imperiale laureate for sculpture. Gormley was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to the arts, having previously been appointed OBE in 1998 . For Room , he received
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#17327877630921232-748: The Ministry of Culture to take place in Delos, a UNESCO World Heritage Site . He installed 29 sculptures made during the last 20 years, including five new works specially commissioned by the NEON Organization, both at the periphery and integrated amongst Delos's archaeological site and museum animating the geological and archaeological features of the island. Also in 2019, the Royal Academy held an exhibition filling its 13 main galleries with Gormley's works, including some new (designed to fit
1288-621: The Royal Academy of Arts in London , Art Changsha in China and Forte di Belvedere in Florence . The 2006 Sydney Biennale featured Gormley's Asian Field , an installation of approximately 200,000 small clay figurines crafted by around 300 Chinese villagers in five days from 100 tons of red clay. Use of others' works attracted minor comment. Some figurines were stolen. Also in 2006,
1344-466: The Royal Institute of British Architects , honorary doctor of the universities of Teesside , Liverpool , University College London , and Cambridge , and a fellow of Trinity and Jesus Colleges , Cambridge. In October 2010, along with 100 other leading artists, he signed an open letter to Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt protesting cutbacks in the arts. On 13 March 2011, Gormley was awarded
1400-754: The Southbank Centre , London, presented by Koestler Trust showing artworks by prisoners, detainees, and ex-offenders. In addition, he judged their annual category prize, also on the theme "inside". Gormley then held the first solo exhibition at the newly remodelled Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, England . Two new bodies of work, known as Rooters and Polyhedra Works , were shown that year at White Cube in Hong Kong and Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg , respectively. On 21 April 2018, Gormley released
1456-1553: The 2015 Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture . In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked Gormley number four in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture ". Gormley's work is held in major public and private collections around the world, including the Arts Council of England ; Tate , London; British Museum , London; British Council , England; National Galleries of Scotland , Edinburgh; Royal Academy of Arts , London; Victoria and Albert Museum , London; Wellcome Collection , London; Art Gallery of New South Wales , Sydney; National Gallery of Australia , Canberra; Middelheim Museum , Antwerp; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art , Humblebaek; Centre Georges Pompidou , Paris; Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg; SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen; M+ , Hong Kong; Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin; Uffizi Gallery , Florence; National Museum of Modern Art , Tokyo; Museum Voorlinden , Wassenaar; State Hermitage Museum , St. Petersburg; Malmo Konsthall , Malmo; Pinchuk Art Centre , Kyiv; MIT List Visual Arts Center , Cambridge, Massachusetts; Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles; Phillips Collection , Washington D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco; Walker Art Center , Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Yale Center for British Art , New Haven, Connecticut. Gormley's auction record
1512-725: The British artist's major exhibition at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo in the summer of 2012. The gallery hosted a series of exhibitions by artists including Tracey Emin , Damien Hirst , Anselm Kiefer , Larry Bell and Theaster Gates . It closed in 2015. In summer 2015, White Cube showed works from its stable of artists at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in East Sussex - White Cube at Glyndebourne. The launch exhibition, held in
1568-461: The Hall. Gormley also unveiled True, for Alan Turing at King's College, Cambridge . This sculpture, made from slabs of Corten steel, celebrates the life and enduring influence of mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing . Speaking on the sculpture, Gormley stated "Alan Turing unlocked the door between the industrial and the information ages. I wanted to make the best sculpture I could to honour
1624-624: The Martello Tower ( Aldeburgh , Suffolk), and Clavell Tower ( Kimmeridge Bay , Dorset). The Dorset sculpture was knocked over into Kimmeridge Bay by a storm in September 2015. On 6 September 2015, Another Place marked the 10th anniversary of its installation at Crosby Beach in Merseyside . Gormley commented: I'm just delighted by the barnacles! Every time I'm there, just like any other visitor, you're encouraged to linger
1680-525: The White Cube's door. In 2011 an anonymous group of net artists launched a website under the domain name, whitecu.be, as, among other ideas, an experimental institutional critique of authorship and trademark practices. Growing in popularity and momentum toward the end of 2011, the site was deleted by the DNS.be authorities after receiving a cancellation request from White Cube's lawyers. The artists transformed
1736-838: The burning of Gormley's 25-m high The Waste Man formed the zenith of the Margate Exodus . Other collaborative projects include Clay and the Collective Body , Inside Australia , Domain Field and Gormley's ongoing Field works, including Asian Field , Amazonian Field , American Field , Field for the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Field for the British Isles . In 2007, Gormley's Event Horizon , consisting of 31 life-sized and anatomically correct casts of his body, four in cast iron and 27 in fiberglass ,
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1792-562: The exhibition Sight . Organised and commissioned by the NEON Organization and presented in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades , this project marked the first time that an artist took over the archaeological site of Delos since the island was inhabited over 5,000 years ago, and is the first time a contemporary art installation has been unanimously approved by the Greek Archaeological Council of
1848-462: The exhibition, a new installation, Resting Place , filled a room with 244 bodies built from fired bricks, and a row of what the artist calls concrete "bunkers" ran down the gallery's central corridor. In 2024, Time Horizon , an installation of 100 cast iron sculptures, opened at Houghton Hall in Norfolk . The installation responded to the specific landscape of the parkland and the history of
1904-438: The first works in which I used my own body. I was trying to map out the phenomenology of the body and to find a new way of evoking it as being less a thing, more a place; a site of transformation, and an axis of physical and spatial experience." Throughout the 1980s, Gormley's lead body-cases were extended, suspended, sealed, pierced and also doubled into two joined forms. Gormley describes his work as "an attempt to materialise
1960-503: The gallery manages various artist estates, including: White Cube has in the past represented other artists, including: In 1999, the Stuckists art group declared themselves "opposed to the sterility of the white wall gallery system", and opened their own gallery (with coloured walls) in street adjoining White Cube. On another occasion in 2002, while dressed as clowns, they deposited a coffin marked "The Death of Conceptual Art" outside
2016-664: The heart of Hong Kong's central district, opened in March 2012. White Cube São Paulo opened in December 2012 and closed in 2015. Jopling's most recent venture was a three-year programme of exhibitions in Brazil . He was named one of GQ 's 50 best dressed British men in 2015. Jopling invested heavily in an online auction platform called Paddle8 . Paddle8 merged with competitor online auction house Auctionata in early 2016. By February 2017, Auctionata declared insolvency and Paddle8 became an independent company once again. Jopling
2072-515: The history of art at Trinity College, Cambridge , from 1968 to 1971. He travelled to India and the Dominion of Ceylon / Sri Lanka to learn more about Buddhism between 1971 and 1974. When Gormley returned to England, and inspired by his time in India, he made one of his first artworks, Sleeping Place , by laying a plaster-soaked sheet over a friend. Its hollow plaster shell hinted at the form of
2128-443: The human body, creating moulds of his own body in plaster that he would then encase in lead. These works, such as the three-part sculptures Three Ways: Mould Hole and Passage and Land Sea and Air II , as well as the single body-case works Plateau , Night and Peer , attempt to investigate the body as a space. In Gormley's words, "How to make bodies into vessels that both contain and occupy space? The early three-piece lead works are
2184-490: The inference Ad maiorem Dei gloriam – "to the greater glory of God". Gormley grew up in a Roman Catholic family living in Hampstead Garden Suburb . The family was wealthy, with a cook and a chauffeur, with a home overlooking the golf course; Gormley's father was an art lover. He attended Ampleforth College , a Benedictine boarding school in Yorkshire , before reading archaeology, anthropology, and
2240-401: The larger White Cube Hoxton Square in London's East End , occupying a converted 1920s light industrial building. The gallery space closed in December 2012. White Cube Mason's Yard, situated off Duke Street, St James's—home of the original White Cube—opened in 2006. White Cube Bermondsey opened in October 2012 and is the largest of the gallery's three sites. White Cube Hong Kong , located in
2296-484: The museum and its grounds. Inside the Hôtel Biron, Gormley placed four sculptures in dialogue with Rodin's own work and also selected a number of his working models to be seen alongside Rodin's plaster maquettes. Later in the year, Gormley opened Body Politic at White Cube in London , a solo exhibition of new sculptures responding to themes of movement and containment, as well as the topic of migration. As part of
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2352-604: The nearby Arts Centre in early 2016. In 2015, at the Forte di Belvedere in Florence , Gormley presented a group of cast iron works that acted as points of ″acupuncture″ throughout the historical fortress. Gormley returned to Florence in 2018 with the exhibition Essere at the Uffizi Gallery . The exhibition featured both historical and recent work, notably Room from 1980, Sense from 1991 and Passage from 2016. In 2017, Gormley curated Inside , an exhibition at
2408-604: The original White Cube on the first floor of 44 Duke Street, St James, in West End . Its exhibition policy was to provide a one-off showcase for both British and international artists. White Cube exhibited some of the leading contemporary artists, including Lucian Freud , Gilbert & George , Antony Gormley , Sarah Morris , Mona Hatoum , Marc Quinn , Damien Hirst , Gary Hume , Runa Islam , Jake & Dinos Chapman , Tracey Emin , Harland Miller , Sam Taylor-Wood , Gavin Turk and Cerith Wyn Evans . In 2000, Jopling opened
2464-410: The place at the other side of appearance where we all live." His work attempts to treat the body not as an object, but as a place and in making works that enclose the space of a particular body to identify a condition common to all human beings. The work is not symbolic but indexical – a trace of a real event of a real body in time. In the 1990s, the hollow body-cases became solid, with Gormley casting
2520-456: The relationship between the human body and architecture, notably in his series of steel and iron "Blockworks". In these works, Gormley replaces anatomy with architectural blocks that recall the built environment. In March 2014, Gormley appeared in the BBC Four series What Do Artists Do All Day? in an episode that followed his team and him in their Kings Cross studio, preparing a new work –
2576-450: The small publishing company Gerald Duckworth & Co. In 2002 an extra two stories (750 m) were added by hoisting a prefabricated unit on top of the existing structure. The Hoxton / Shoreditch area has been popular with the Young British Artists (YBAs) since the 1990s, at which time it was a run-down area of light industry. More recently it has undergone extensive redevelopment with clubs, restaurants and media businesses. Hoxton Square
2632-518: The space), some remade for the gallery, and some of his early sculptures, with two rooms of his drawings and sketchbooks. In 2020, Gormley was confirmed to be "lending" a sculpture to Kirklees College to sit atop its new building at Pioneer House in Dewsbury , as part of a major redevelopment in the town. In 2022, a Gormley sculpture called Alert was installed on the main campus of Imperial College London . The installation raised objections from
2688-656: The student body due to its perceived "phallic" interpretation. That year, Gormley also held exhibitions at the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, Germany and Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar , the Netherlands. In Duisburg, his work was placed in dialogue with Wilhelm Lehmbruck 's expressionistic, elongated sculptures. Gormley's Reflection II has remained on display at the museum. In 2023, Gormley opened
2744-412: The subsequent legal correspondence into 19 standalone artworks. In 2015 the gallery was targeted by anti-gentrification activists who graffitied "Yuppies Out" and "Class War" onto the wall of an apartment near the gallery. 51°29′59″N 0°04′55″W / 51.4997°N 0.081864°W / 51.4997; -0.081864 Jay Jopling Jeremy Michael " Jay " Jopling (born June 1963)
2800-497: The work in iron to create masses that displace space. One of these works, Critical Mass II , was installed in an old tram storage station in Vienna . Comprising 60 life-size sculptures, all presented in a variety of positions and poses, the work has been described by Gormley as "an anti-monument to the victims of the 20th century". This work has since been exhibited in a variety of countries and contexts, each time reconfigured in response to its environment. Notable presentations include
2856-536: Was born in Hampstead , London, the youngest of seven children, to a German mother (maiden name Brauninger) and a father of Irish descent. His paternal grandfather was an Irish Catholic from Derry who settled in Walsall in Staffordshire. The ancestral homeland of the Gormley Clan (Irish: Ó Goirmleadhaigh ) in Ulster was east County Donegal and west County Tyrone , with most people in both Derry and Strabane being of County Donegal origin. Gormley has stated that his parents chose his initials, "AMDG", to have
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#17327877630922912-463: Was installed on top of prominent buildings along London's South Bank , and installed in locations around New York City's Madison Square in 2010. Critic Howard Halle said that "Using distance and attendant shifts of scale within the very fabric of the city, [ Event Horizon ] creates a metaphor for urban life and all the contradictory associations – alienation, ambition, anonymity, fame – it entails." In July 2009, Gormley presented One & Other ,
2968-419: Was made from horizontal and vertical aluminium bars that filled the room like "whiskers" and visitors were invited to enter and find their way through this space. Gormley won the Turner Prize in 1994 with Field for the British Isles . Gormley has been a Royal Academician since 2003, and was a trustee of the British Museum from 2007 to 2015. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and
3024-469: Was married to artist Sam Taylor-Wood , together they have two daughters, Angelica (b. June 1997) and Jessie Phoenix (b. November 2005). In September 2008, the couple announced that they were separating amicably after 11 years of marriage. He subsequently married Hikari Yokoyama, who works for Paddle8. In 2019, their daughter, Djuna Mei Jopling, was born. Antony Gormley Sir Antony Mark David Gormley OBE RA (born 30 August 1950)
3080-613: Was opened on Bermondsey Street. The building was formerly a 1970s warehouse and was converted into 5,400 m (58,000 sq ft) of interior space making it, at launch, Europe's biggest commercial gallery. White Cube Hong Kong opened in March 2012 at 50 Connaught Road , in the heart of Hong Kong's Central district. It was the first White Cube gallery located outside the UK. Many artists have exhibited there including Gilbert & George , Anselm Kiefer , Damien Hirst and Cerith Wyn Evans . The gallery presents in an internal exhibition space of 560 m (6,000 sq ft) , which
3136-441: Was selling fire extinguishers door-to-door. As a university student, Jopling visited Manhattan , where he forged links with post-war American artists, encouraging them to donate works for the charity auction "New Art: New World." In the late 1980s, he formed a friendship with the artist Damien Hirst . After completing his M.A. in 1984, he moved to London and began working with artists of his generation. In May 1993, he opened
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