Antony Gormley

BALL WORKS, 2001 - 2010

At a certain point in the late 1990s I started thinking about the relationship of mass and space as dynamic, taking hand forged balls and making constellations that convey something about entropy and aggregation in a direct way. The balls on the floor can roll about anywhere, other balls are fixed in clusters like molecules.

All bodies are attracted to each other and the relationship between man and dog is one of the oldest of attractions across species. The installation of BODIES IN SPACE V acknowledges that all bodies are bodies in space, whether they are the quarks and muons of the subatomic world or the planets of a solar system.

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STANDING MATTER I

STANDING MATTER I, 2001
Forged ball bearings
192 x 47 x 31 cm

BODIES IN SPACE III

BODIES IN SPACE III, 2001
Forged ball bearings
207 x 95 x 58 cm

BODIES IN SPACE II

BODIES IN SPACE II, 2001
Forged ball bearings
193 x 67 x 48 cm

BODIES IN SPACE  I, 2001

BODIES IN SPACE I, 2001, 1999
Forged ball bearings, 192 x 49 x 34 cm

BODIES IN SPACE IV

BODIES IN SPACE IV, 2001
Forged ball bearings
206 x 86 x 72 cm

BODIES IN SPACE V

BODIES IN SPACE V, 2001
Forged ball bearings
200 x 106 x 70 cm

BODIES IN SPACE VI (OMAR KHAN)

BODIES IN SPACE VI (OMAR KHAN), 2003
Forged ball bearings
177 x 76 x 43 cm
Photograph by Stephen White, London

BODIES IN SPACE VII

BODIES IN SPACE VII, 2003
Forged ball bearings
200 x 95 x 70 cm
Photograph by Stephen White, London

BODIES IN SPACE VIII

BODIES IN SPACE VIII, 2003
Mild steel forged balls
201 x 84 x 80cm
Photograph by Stephen White, London

STANDING MATTER V

STANDING MATTER V, 2007
Forged ball bearings
192 x 50 x 30 cm
Photograph by Stephen White, London

THREE FOREIGN BODIES

THREE FOREIGN BODIES, 2007
Forged ball bearings
Dimensions variable
Photograph by Stephen White, London

STANDING MATTER XXI

STANDING MATTER XXI, 2007
Forged ball bearings
190.5 x 52 x 28 cm
Photograph by Stephen White, London

STANDING MATTER XXIV

STANDING MATTER XXIV, 2007
Forged ball bearings
190 x 53 x 30cm
Photograph by Stephen White, London

BODY WEB I

BODY WEB I, 2008
Forged ball bearings
202 x 63 x 45 cm
Photograph by Stephen White, London

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