Blind Light: Bumping into Anthony Gormley at the Hayward, Southbank, London, London
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28 May 2007: Blind Light: Bumping into Anthony Gormley at the Hayward
Gormley's Blind Light is a cloud chamber where you are invited to lose yourself, bumping into strangers, only realising the limits when you walk into the walls of this dense, sensual, pure water fog. Surrendering to this on Bank Hol Monday, 2.15pm.
Anthony Gormley remains a controversial artist but one who has huge appeal. His most famous work is probably the "The Angel of the North", a favourite regional icon. Last year, 100 iron Gormley men, collectively known as Another Country, took up permanent residence on the beach at Crosby in Merseyside; enigmatically facing out to the water.
At the centre of this Hayward exhibition Blind Light, is Gormley's cloud in a box into which visitors are all invited to disappear. His hope is that you won't be able to see your hand. That's likely to be one of the most popular installations in London this summer. If you've enjoyed the stuff at the Tate Modern turbine room, this should appeal. You don't have to take it seriously as art. It's just as fun to think of it as a new shared experience with many strangers and acquaintances. So, I thought, why not plan an OUT event around this!
As this is a selective retrospective on Gormley's huge Body of work (OK it's a terrible pun), there will be other large sculptures: a gigantic "Space Station", lots of boxy humanoids, formations of dangling see-through latticed constructions from which human forms are suspended, etc.
This is likely to be a fairly 'deconstructed' event, so my suggestion is to head straight for the cloud box as a group at 2.30pm and to let that experience take over. (I can just see this like some kind of human fairground dodgems!) We can then wander around to the other exhibits (or continue in the cloud) but take it all in in about 90 minutes. At about 4pm, we can all gather just by the exhibition exit to proceed to drinks or coffee for those who can stay on to chat. My current thought is Gordon's Wine Bar by the embankment or Kudos but we can decide on the day.
* Just a note for those who suffer from asthma or claustrophobia that the gallery has put up a warning to be careful when entering the cloud box.
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This event has been added to the OUTeverywhere calendar by Wilson W from Exeter in the Devon area.
Thoughtful, urbane man who enjoys good conversation and wine/food. Currently working on my PhD. Passionate about the theatre and the arts. Not much into sports unless it's the gym (which I use to stay trim rather than body-build). Always happy to make new like-minded friends. A regular in London.
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