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| ANTONY GORMLEY Horizon Field August 2010 until April 2012 A Landscape Installation in the High Alps of Vorarlberg, Austria Presented by Kunsthaus Bregenz |
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| The Kunsthaus Bregenz and the British artist Antony Gormley (born in 1950) have realised a unique project in the mountains of Vorarlberg. Horizon Field is the first art project of its kind erected in the mountains and the largest landscape intervention in Austria to date. Horizon Field consists of 100 life-size, solid cast iron figures of the human body spread over an area of 150 square kilometers in the communities of Mellau, Schoppernau, Schröcken, Warth, Mittelberg, Lech, Klösterle, and Dalaas. The work forms a horizontal line at 2,039 meters above sea level. This height has no specific metaphorical or thematic relevance in the placement of the figures. It is an altitude that is readily accessible but, at the same time, lies beyond the realm of everyday life. Some of the figures are installed in places one can hike to or ski past in the winter. Others are unapproachable though visible from certain vantage points. The works are neither representations (statues) nor symbols, but represent the place where a human being once was, and where any human being could be. Horizon Field engages the physical, perceptual, and imaginative responses of anyone coming within its relational field. Over the 2 years during which this installation is in place, the work is exposed to the elements, to different lighting conditions, and to the changing seasons, thus enabling constantly new perceptions and impressions. | »The idea is that you are immersed in a field that connects these three aspects of consciousness: the palpable, the perceivable, and the imaginable.« Antony Gormley, April 2010 |
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