antony gormley: horizon field hamburg

‘horizon field hamburg’ by antony gormley
image © frank müller

british artist antony gormley created a new installation especially for the large deichtorhalle in germany entitled ‘horizon field hamburg’.
visitors were welcomed to a new spatio-temporal matrix – a warping empty space of almost 4,000 square metres in size and nearly 19 meters high.

within the room an expansive, black, reflective structure floated and swayed nearly 7.5 metres above the floor – a project
attempting to harness the architectural potential of the deichtorhallen building, now over a century old. the shadowy
artwork, which was only sparsely illuminated by light that came from the skylights above, provoked an experience of reorientation
and re-connection with the senses to heighten hearing, seeing and feeling.

gormley says of his work:

‘it is critical that the experience of the space is utterly clear and that in there we see a void, clean building reimagined
as a kind of gymnasium for mind and body…there is a double bind here.

we have a real choice of how we wish to participate.we can stay in an underworld or climb skywards. both scenarios put
the human subject into a dynamic position of jeopardy.’

visitors were welcomed to a warping empty space of almost 4,000 square metres
image © frank müller

the project attempted to harness the architectural potential  of the deichtorhallen building
image courtesy deichtorhallen

within the room an expansive, black, reflective structure floated and swayed nearly 7.5 metres above the floor
image courtesy deichtorhallen

the artwork provoked an experience of reorientation and re-connection with the senses
image courtesy deichtorhallen