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Sculptor explains how new show, featuring 600 cast-iron human skyscrapers, expresses his anger about London's testosterone-fuelled corporate expansion
Antony Gormley says his first White Cube exhibition in four years, which opens in September, is driven by “more of a sense of urgency” than any other show he has done. From the warming of our climate and the acidification of our seas to cities dominated by skyscrapers “nothing more than expressions of virile corporate power,” says Gormley the artist's despair at society's failure to take action has filtered unavoidably into his latest work.
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I don't see London's towers expressing much more than the testosterone of a late capitalist society
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Continue reading...Sculptor explains how new show, featuring 600 cast-iron human skyscrapers, expresses his anger about London's testosterone-fuelled corporate expansion
Antony Gormley says his first White Cube exhibition in four years, which opens in September, is driven by “more of a sense of urgency” than any other show he has done. From the warming of our climate and the acidification of our seas to cities dominated by skyscrapers “nothing more than expressions of virile corporate power,” says Gormley the artist's despair at society's failure to take action has filtered unavoidably into his latest work.
Related: How we made The Angel of the North
I don't see London's towers expressing much more than the testosterone of a late capitalist society
Related: Are Shoreditch skyscrapers a London tower too far, even for Boris Johnson?
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