Wednesday 24th February
Antony Gormley Sculpture - St. Pauls
Flare II is the new sculpture which has been unveiled today in St. Pauls cathedral. the sculpture by Antony Gormley is a mesh of wire in a cloud form with a falling figure hanging in the cloud. The staircase is not usually open to the public, although it has featured in a few films, including Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes, so it will be a unique chance to see the geometric stair case. The staircase itself looks so beautiful I would love to go purely to see Christophers Wren's inspiring architecture, although the sculpture looks very interesting aswell. Photographs I have seen of it are not so clear so really need to see it in reality! Flare II is part of the cathedrals programme of artworks designed "to explore the encounter between art and faith".
Canon Giles Fraser (the cathedral's chancellor): "Gormley's work on the human form was an apt art for a Christian church which believes in incarnation — where God becomes human: “We're just really excited at being the place where people are asking questions — about the nature of the body and about physicality and vulnerability.”"
Antony Gormley: “Wren understood proportion, space and gravitational dynamics as no other British architect of his time, and the Geometric Staircase is a supreme and elegant outcome of this understanding,”
“Flare II is my attempt to use applied geometry to construct an energy field describing a human space in space.”
