Delight.ARCHITECT RICHARD FEILDEN WAS INVITED BY CAPE FAREWELL TO VISIT THE ARCTIC, WITH ARTISTS INCLUDING ANTONY Antony or Marc Antony, Lat. Marcus Antonius, c.83 B.C.–30 B.C., Roman politican and soldier. He was of a distinguished family; his mother was a relative of Julius Caesar. Antony was notorious from his youth for riotous living, but even his enemies admitted his courage. Antony and CaesarBetween 58 B.C. and 56 B.C. GORMLEY, TO EXPLORE WAYS OF COMMUNICATING THE CONSEQUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE. FOLLOWING RICHARD'S TRAGIC DEATH (AR FEBRUARY 2005), HIS PRACTICE PARTNER PETER CLEGG JOINED THE TRIP. Cape Farewell is a series of expeditions into the Arctic, through a previously icebound but now passable route. The journeys explore the very seas that hold the key to understanding the health of the world's ocean currents. It is hoped that by sailing to the heart of the debate and drawing together scientists, teachers and renowned artists, Cape Farewell will illustrate the workings of this crucial part of the planet and engage the public and schools in the debate about climate change. Peter Clegg and Antony Gormley went in March and their contribution, as described below by Antony Gormley, is called Three Made Places. Many of the artworks will be exhibited at the Natural History Museum in London in June 2006, and a television film of the three expeditions will be shown on BBC4 in January 2006. For more information visit www.capefarewell.com [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I would like to call the work Three Made Places: Block, Standing Room and Shelter. I see them as a development. Individually the block indicates a relationship between the individual body and planetary body mass; a substantial equivalent for one material body; the luminous void chamber is a vertical space that indicates consciousness; and the shelter establishes the necessity of a collective body. Together they constitute a continuum of places that the human needs to dwell in: the physical space of the body, the imaginative space of conciseness, and the collective space of fellowship. The first is material measure, the second dedicated to the imagination and the third useful and used. These three places are all MADE and do not seek to describe the body but indicate its place, using the Euclidean geometry Euclidean Geometry The Plane geometry learned in high school, based upon a few ideal, smooth, symmetric shapes. of architecture in an un-inscribed Arctic environment. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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