Antony Gormley - Host, 1998

Antony Gormley Host, 1998 Edition: Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Jahresgabe 1998 (issue 14 / 20) Laboratory glass with water and mud from the Kieler Förde Dimensions: 17.5 x ø 8.5 cm Signed: on the bottom (image)
Antony Gormley Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is an English sculptor. Gormley grew up in Hampstead. He studied archeology, anthropology and art history at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1968 to 1971, after which he went to India and Sri Lanka to delve into Buddhism. Returning to London three years later in 1974, Gormley continued his studies at the Central School of Art (now known as Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design) and Goldsmiths College, completing a postgraduate degree in sculpture between 1977 and 1979 at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He has participated in important exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale and the documenta 8 in Kassel in 1987 and the 2006 Sydney Biennale with his work Asian Field. Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, was awarded an appointment to the Order of the British Empire in 1997 and the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999. In 2007 he received the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture. His famous work Exposure (Squatting man) is in Lelystad (Markerstrekdam)! Exhibition in 2022 in Museum Voorlinden.