Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2024 opens featuring Antony Gormley
The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale is one of the largest art festivals in the world. As part of the 2024 edition, the Triennale has commissioned a new sculpture titled Man:Rock V (2024). Here, a body quietly clasps a naturally formed stone and conforms to its shape. The work holds a trace of the artist’s body on its surface; a single continuous line on the cusp between drawing and the promise of form.
Sited within the former Koryu shrine in Nakajao, Tokamachi, Gormley’s Man:Rock V is returned to the elements, placed among trees, wild plants and stone. It asks us to reflect on the dependency between humankind and the earth, and our roles as co-inhabitors and creators of this planet.
This is the second work by Antony Gormley commissioned by the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale; Another Singularity (Japan) has been on view since 2009.
Photographs: Man:Rock V, 2024, andesite stone, 59 × 107 × 55 cm. Commissioned by Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2024. Photographs by Nakamura Osamu.