
What Holds Us opens soon at Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
‘As a sculptor, I speak in the language of stuff: matter, in the belief that all matter has meaning. The possibility of a world starts with the possibility of a body – I want to re-imagine both. I hope this exhibition opens up a built world that we take for granted and allows us to experience it as if for the first time – a point of view shared by newborn and artist.’ – Antony Gormley
Galleria Continua presents What Holds Us, an exhibition by celebrated British sculptor Antony Gormley that explores our condition as urban animals through the resonance of different materials, from primordial stone and clay to industrial concrete and iron, culminating in the most universal and insubstantial medium: cardboard.
What Holds Us engages the viewer in a trajectory of experience that moves from confrontation to exploration, questioning what supports us, what contains us and what we believe to be permanent.
Photograph: Antony Gormley, Verse, 2019, cast iron, 191.7 × 36.5 × 52.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co.