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Antony Gormley on why sculpture is far superior to painting

In an extract from their book, Antony Gormley tells Martin Gayford that the 3-D will always trump the 2-D

7 November 2020

9:00 AM

7 November 2020

9:00 AM

Antony Gormley: In the beginning was the thing! The reason I chose sculpture as a vocation was to escape words, to communicate in a physical way. It was a means of confronting the way things were, of getting to know them in material terms.

The origins of making physical objects go back to before the advent of Homo sapiens, earlier even than the appearance of our Neanderthal cousins.

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Shaping the World: Sculpture from Pre-History to Now, by Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford, is published by Thames & Hudson.

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