Antony Gormley followed Thomas Schütte as guest exhibitor in the new semi-open exhibition pavilion Het Huis (The House), built by Robbrecht and Daem for the renovated 

The exhibition questioned the human body’s attachment to architecture. All the works on view were based on the ‘bubble-matrix’, a random, but consistent geometry found in nature which also forms the structural syntax of 

 (2009) - a major work which was gifted to the Museum with the help of Xavier Hufkens Gallery.

Middelheim Museum

, 2011, cast iron, 180 × 47 × 50 cm. Photograph by Joris Casaer.

, 2011, 3 mm square section stainless steel bar, 184 × 47 × 50 cm. Photograph by Joris Casaer.

, 2011, cast iron, 23 × 205 × 58 cm. Photograph by Pieter Boons.

, 2012, 2 mm square section stainless steel bar, 235 × 170 × 125 cm. Photograph by Joris Casaer.

, 2012, cast iron, 168 × 57 × 48 cm. Photograph by Joris Casaer.

, 2012, cast iron, 73 × 55 × 66 cm. Photograph by Joris Casaer.

, 2011, cast iron, 81 × 62 × 72 cm. Photograph by Joris Casaer.

, 2012, cast iron, 37 × 197 × 49 cm. Photograph by Joris Casaer.

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