Object On View At National Portrait Gallery, London
On 7 September 2016, as part of ‘Antony Gormley - Object’, his first display at the National Portrait Gallery, a cast iron sculpture made from the artist’s body will be suspended from the ceiling of the main hall.
Object (1999) will occupy a position of maximum exposure, being visible from the ground floor and in passing, as the visitor ascends the escalator to the gallery’s top floor.
The installation is accompanied on October 5 by the display of Fall 1999, a selection of drawings shown in the gallery's first floor balcony within sight of the sculpture. Like the sculpture, these compelling works present a solitary figure occupying a void.
Photograph: Object, 1999, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK. Installation view. Photograph by Victoria Miller, Digital Programmes © National Portrait Gallery, London.