Hayward Gallery
London, UK
17 May - 19 August 2007
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/gormley/
The show’s title work is a large, free standing, fogged glass room, in which visitors stumble around with arms outstretched. The experience inside is phenomenal; people appear and disappear into white haze at arms length and the stillness of sound is incredible. I just wish someone other than Gormley had made it.
The rest of the show is littered with the usual ‘body as vessel’ objects. The most effective are sited on rooftops across central London facing Hayward, seen from the gallery viewing platforms. They're threatening, more fitting to an episode of Dr. Who. Perhaps that’s a plus point.
Iain Pate
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The show did little for me. The foggy room would only be novel to someone who has never been to a Turkish Bath, and the the mannekins draped around the angles of rooms were ugly and uninteresting. The portentous titles drawn from physics (Event Horizon etc) meant less than they first appeared. A few interesting moments, but largely solipsistic and tedious.
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