About the exhibition: Blind Light
At the Hayward Gallery London 17 May to 19 August 2007The Hayward, as part of the relaunch season of Southbank Centre, presents the first major London showing of the work of Antony Gormley: Event Horizon; one of London’s most ambitious public art commissions.
The exhibition features a series of brand new monumental works specially conceived for The Hayward. It will include one of the largest ever urban public art commissions, Event Horizon, which presents sculptural casts of the artist's body on rooftops and public walkways across central London.
Gormley’s work has focused consistently on the human figure since the 1980s, using his own body as the starting point, material, tool and subject. For this exhibition, Gormley creates a series of works which address fundamental questions of the body and space, appearance and disappearance, transformation and transcendence. These new works, including a spectacular series of suspended figures created in light-infused webs of steel, will be shown alongside pieces from the last three decades. The selection includes Mother's Pride (1982), Allotment II (1996) and Drawn (2000).
Viewed from the vantage point of The Hayward, the works are spread over a 1.5 sq km area, with some figures clearly visible and others sensed only as presences on the horizon. From daily commuters to tourists visiting London for the first time, Event Horizon will encourage people to look afresh at the city and will explore the way people view and interact with their everyday surroundings.
Antony Gormley: Blind Light is sponsored by Eversheds LLP.
Additional support for the exhibition has been received from The Henry Moore Foundation.
To coincide with the exhibition a one-hour television documentary Antony Gormley: Making Space will be broadcast at 8pm on Saturday 12 May 2007.
The Hayward, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
Tel: 020 7921 0813
southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts
New opening hours for The Hayward:
Open daily 10am-6pm:
Late nights Friday and Saturday until 10pm
Advance tickets are available on the website at southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts, by calling 0871 663 2519, or in person at The Hayward ticket office.
