Kunstproject 'Another Place' van Anthony Gormley

Aan de Engelse kust, bij Liverpool is een bijzonder project te zien.
De volgende citaten en afbeeldingen zijn overgenomen van website www.seftoncoast.org.uk

Another Place consists of 100 cast-iron, life-size figures spread out along three kilometres of the foreshore, stretching almost one kilometre out to sea. Contractors have finished lifting the figures into place, driving them into the beach on three-metre-high foundation piles. The complete installation will be available to view until November 2006. (...)
The Another Place figures - each one weighing 650 kilos - are made from casts of the artist's own body and are shown at different stages of rising out of the sand, all of them looking out to sea, staring at the horizon in silent expectation. The work is being exhibited in the UK for the first time. It has previously been seen in Cuxhaven in Germany, Stavanger in Norway and De Panne in Belgium. It is expected to move to New York following its installation in Sefton which ends in November 2006.



According to Antony Gormley, Another Place harnesses the ebb and flow of the tide to explore man's relationship with nature. He explained:
"The seaside is a good place to do this. Here time is tested by tide, architecture by the elements and the prevalence of sky seems to question the earth's substance. In this work human life is tested against planetary time. This sculpture exposes to light and time the nakedness of a particular and peculiar body. It is no hero, no ideal, just the industrially reproduced body of a middle-aged man trying to remain standing and trying to breathe, facing a horizon busy with ships moving materials and manufactured things around the planet."

Ook aandacht voor Antony Gormley in de zaterdagbijlage 'FD Persoonlijk' van het Financieel Dagblad, 27 augustus 2005.