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...That was how the line was initially shown, in 2015 at Forte Belvedere overlooking Florence — responding to the Renaissance idea that humankind is perfectible....
...Some large-scale national museums, too, are joining the party: Vienna’s Albertina is open, the Uffizi in Florence, many of Rome’s great institutions too....
...one of Gormley’s figures....
...When Alam was arrested, for example, hundreds of his peers — including Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Dayanita Singh, Amar Kanwar and Steve McQueen — signed petitions calling for his release....
...Blind, filled windows (only Michelangelo did those on the staircase of the Laurentian Library in Florence); interior air and space translated into a solid mass, can give the impression of forbidding impenetrability...
...These are just three of the 103 varied forms that make up Human, an ambitious exhibition by British sculptor Antony Gormley that has been running through the summer in the Forte di Belvedere in Florence....
...By the mid-1970s, however, he was living in Florence in order to make work with the video studio Art/Tapes/22....
...In Florence recently, publicity has put a fresco by Giorgio Vasari on the tourist map, because it may have obliterated the remains of an important work by Leonardo da Vinci, “The Battle of Anghiari”....
...came face to face with new Gormley works, marking a significant departure in cultural exchange....
...public display of the 21st-century art world, all are portraits of creative rivalry and power play which will be recognisable to anyone observing, to take one example, the recent face-off between Antony Gormley...
...“People in Moscow should have access to Jeff Koons and Antony Gormley,” he continues. “But once again, it is a case of looking out....
...I’ve done them for the Corsini family in Florence, and for Paul Mellon, of his house in Antigua....
...It is as no less than a precursor of Britart that a clutch of contemporary sculptors such as Rachel Whiteread and Antony Gormley celebrate him in a film screened continuously in a side room....
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