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Still Standing

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State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia   23 September 201115 January 2012
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Still Standing marked the first time that a living artist had engaged with the Hermitage’s classical galleries. Gormley placed nine ancient statues from the collection in a loose constellation directly on the ground, so that these idealised and sexualised bodies shared the same conditions as the viewer.

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