This week I went to visit the British installation artist and sculptor Antony Gormley at the RA exhibition. I feel that I have re-recognized the reinforced concrete. This exhibition has a total of 13 rooms, which is very interactive. The modern art feels largely and space. The game, the tough material became soft under Gormley’s hands, and the works on display also had different meanings because of human intervention.
One of the rooms’ works is filled with a huge steel ring that is described as a “sketch” where people can walk freely. It can be seen that the exhibition explores the artist’s extensive use of organic, industrial and elemental materials for many years, including iron. Steel, hand-made lead, sea water and clay. The exhibition also shows his rare early works from the 1970s and 1980s, some of which were sculptures created by artists using their own bodies as tools, and some of which are his sketches.
My favorite piece is a black square pipe. Each visitor will line up from the entrance of the pipe. When you first enter, there is a little bit of light. Then there is a road that has no light at all. Extending your hands can estimate the distance of any wall. After this darkness has passed, you can see the weak light source, and the very weak shadow projected by the human body on the wall. Every visitor can have a great experience.
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