Auteur: AIVP
Source: Dublin Docklands Authority
Date de parution: Mardi, 11 Septembre 2007
Type de Document: Actualité
Thème: 5.05 - culture et équipement culturel, 5.02 - l'architecture à l interface ville / port
Langue originale: Anglais
Localisation: Europe : Irlande : Dublin
Langue: Français, Anglais, Espagnol

A l'issue d'un concours international engagé en2006 la Dublin Docklands Authority a retenu la proposition d'Antony Gormley pour réaliser une sculpture monumentale de 48 mètres de haut sur le site Est des docklands. Ce projet marque le coup d'envoi d'une politique artistique et culturelle dont la prochaine étape sera la construction du Grand Canal Theatre

Mr. Gormley has been inspired by the research of Professor Weaire of TrinityCollege, Dublin who with Professor Phelan unlocked the geometries of the bubble matrix, to radically re-describe the human form as an open structure. In combination with the advanced geometry unit of Arup Engineers (London), he is hoping to be able to make a river-sited work that arises from the water as a drawing in space.
Commenting on the proposed design, Mr Gormley said : “The work will allude to the human body as a dynamic interconnected matrix evoking the collective body, which is in itself in dynamic relation to the movement of people in the street and across the new Sean O’ CaseyBridge”.
Gormley has evolved this proposal from Field, a vast installation of 35,000 sculptures last seen in Dublin in 1993 at his show in IMMA, where tiny clay objects looked up at the viewer. This dynamic has been reversed in this proposal for Dublin, where the walkers on the street will become the Lilliputians in relation to this subliminally evoked collective body. The sculpture will read as a drawing against the changing light of the sky, within an area of Dublin that has low rise buildings on both sides of the river.
The final form of the work is yet to be decided and will be the result of ongoing discussions between the research team and the artist.

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