Lecture date: 2004-03-02
Architect David Chipperfield and artist Antony Gormley discuss the process and outcome of their collaboration on creating a studio space for Gormley in a warehouse near Kings Cross.
Antony Gormley has revitalised the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body as subject, tool, and material. Since 1990 he has expanded his concern with the human condition to explore the collective body and the relationship between self and other in large-scale installations.
David Chipperfields work has been characterised by a tendency to use abstracted vernacular forms – the Gormley studio is clearly defined by its context of industrial sheds and uses the more domestic space of an artists studio in addition as a model.
Recent work by David Chipperfield Architects includes the River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames; Neues Museum, Berlin; and the Palace of Justice, Salerno.
