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Antony Gormley on the Island of Delos SIGHT Artemis, goddess of the hunt, the island’s SIGHT OF DELOS ANTONY GORMLEY EPHORATE OF ANTIQUITIES ANTONY GORMLEY ON destiny and future prosperity was assured. This OF CYCLADES unique history is imprinted on Delos’s The mythical birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, Born in London in 1950, Antony Gormley has had THE SACRED ISLAND OF architecture, sanctuaries and houses, and in the Delos bears a historical weight disproportionate a number of solo shows at venues including Uffizi The Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades constitutes DELOS 02.05-31.10.2019 past was animated through rituals that to its size. Inhabited since the Early Cycladic 3rd Gallery, Florence (2019); the Philadelphia Museum a Directorate of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and celebrated the gods and protected the island. millennium BC, it is home to one of the most of Art, Philadelphia (2019); Kettle’s Yard, Sports. It is responsible for all the material remains From May to October 2019, on the Later, sanctuaries to foreign deities, including important sanctuaries of the Ancient Greek Cambridge (2018); the Long Museum, Shanghai that have been brought to light or are preserved in archaeological site and the Μuseum of Delos, Serapis and Isis, were built here. world, is fatally associated with classical (2017); National Portrait Gallery, London (2016); the territory of the island complex of the Cyclades. the non-profit organization NEON, founded by Athens, and evolved into a wealthy commercial Forte di Belvedere, Florence (2015); Zentrum Paul These evidences of human presence date back to Dimitris Daskalopoulos, and the Ephorate of Historical narratives record that humans occupied and urban centre of the Hellenistic oecumene, Klee, Bern (2014); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Early Prehistory and continue until the Antiquities of Cyclades present an Delos at the highest point of the island, Mount in the early Middle Ages, fading irreversibly, (2012); Deichtorhallen Hamburg; State Hermitage establishment of the Modern Greek State, in AD unprecedented exhibition of contemporary Kynthos, during 2500–2000 BC and remained only to be rediscovered when European Museum, St Petersburg (2011); Kunsthaus 1830. Such a broad chronological context sculpture by British artist Antony Gormley. through ancient and classical times up to 69 BC, Modernity and the Greek state begun to shape Bregenz (2010); Hayward Gallery, London (2007); incorporates many different expressions of the when the majority of the inhabitants abandoned their past, based on the findings of the Kunsthalle zu Kiel; Malmö Konsthall (1993); and cultural heritage of the area: archaeological sites, Gormley (b.1950) is one of the most renowned Delos as it was no longer a vital commercial port large-scale 19th century excavations. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen monuments, castles, traditional settlements and of artists of our time. During the past 40 years, his on the Mediterranean routes. Today, with the (1989). A major solo exhibition of his work will be course a whole world of movable finds and relics sculptures and installations have challenged our exception of archaeologists safeguarding the The extensive ruins within the unspoilt natural presented at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, that are selectively presented in the Ephorate’s perception of space and the human body. island and those undertaking scientific research, beauty of the Cycladic landscape of uninhabited in September 2019. Permanent public works museums and collections. Delos is uninhabited. Its ruins, like those at Delos offer the visitor the unique experience of include the Angel of the North (Gateshead, As an undergraduate at Trinity College, Pompeii, stand devoid of human presence. a journey through time. But this experience England), Another Place (Crosby Beach, England), During recent years, the Ephorate of Antiquities of University of Cambridge, Gormley studied cannot necessarily be limited to the academic Exposure (Lelystad, The Netherlands), Chord (MIT Cyclades has developed an extensive action plan ΔΗΛΟΣ 02.05 reading of the island’s historical significance. At – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, archaeology, anthropology and art history, Gormley completely reinterprets the function aiming to manage the voluminous cultural capital DELOS 31.10.2019 equipping him with a deep understanding of the and purpose of sculpture, transforming the a time when the past is not read Cambridge, MA, USA). He has also participated in under its responsibility. The protection and the diversity of human cultures and their origins. traditional statues and totems of the ancient unambiguously, and our acquaintance with it, major group shows such as the Venice Biennale thorough documentation of the archaeological, These interests led him to leave England in 1971 world that once adorned public squares, temples through its registration in our personal and Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany. Gormley won architectural, and historical data of the monuments and embark on a transformational journey: and private dwellings into sites of empathy and memory, passes through our personal – the Turner Prize in 1994 and has been a member are the primary, essential act of this initiative. hitchhiking through Europe, on to Turkey, Syria, imaginative projection. The first connection quasi-unmediated – experience, we urge of the Royal Academy since 2003. He was made Ηaving successfully attracted important donations CURATED BY Lebanon, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, arriving between visitors and the work is established visitors to discover their own path; to connect an Officer of the British Empire in 1997 and and funding through competitive European IWONA BLAZWICK OBE, DIRECTOR, WHITECHAPEL GALLERY in India a year later where he lived for two before they even set foot on Delos. Approaching with the space on an individual basis; to take knighted in 2014. programmes, the Ephorate is working towards the AND ELINA KOUNTOURI, DIRECTOR, NEON years, studying Buddhist meditation. He returned the rugged northwest coast, they catch sight of a away their own personal historical, aesthetic, conservation, restoration, and promotion of to London in April 1974, knowing that he would lone figure (from Gormley’s series Another Time, environmental and even emotional experience. important archaeological sites and monuments. NEON.ORG.GR dedicate his life to art. This early expedition has 1999–2013), standing sentinel on a rocky However, new readings of the past require new, The work of the Ephorate is also focused on #NEONGREECE #DELOS had a defining influence on his sculpture, which promontory at the water’s edge. Two more powerful synapses with the present. communicating its work, engaging with the local focuses on the body, its position in space and its works from the same series – also looking community, keeping an active presence in connection to the elements and time. towards the distant horizon – stand on Plakes One of these synapses is Antony Gormley’s international scientific and museological fora, and Peak and on Mount Kynthos, and another installation SIGHT. The artist, who is constantly NEON implementing new ways of expression. In line with ‘I treat the body as a place encouraging empathic similar work stands in the waters of the harbour. exploring the relationship between the human these efforts, this summer the Ephorate opens up SIGHT IS ORGANIZED AND occupation of that which lies the other side of Further sculptures are integrated with body and the environment, installs his NEON is a nonprofit organization that works to towards the world of contemporary art, wishing to appearance: what it feels like.’ archaeological sites across the island, from the anthropomorphic iron sculptures on Delos, bring contemporary culture closer to everyone. It underline the revitalizing force of the form and COMMISSIONED BY NEON Stadium to the Τheatre district and from the redefining space and offering new sensory is committed to broadening the appreciation, timeless inspiration, and the need for a dialogue AND PRESENTED ΙΝ In this installation on Delos, Gormley merchant stores to the Μuseum site. stimuli to the visitor. Whether as shadows of understanding, and creation of contemporary art between the 'established' past and contemporary repopulates the island with iron ’bodyforms’, people that haunted the once bustling historic in Greece and to the firm belief that this is a key artistic expression. COLLABORATION WITH THE restoring a human presence and creating a Gormley has studied the temples and the sacred harbour, or as dark reminders of the ancient tool for growth and development. NEON, founded EPHORATE OF ANTIQUITIES journey of potential encounters. He has installed enclosures, the horizon and the topography statues that adorned the houses and the in 2013 by collector and entrepreneur Dimitris 29 sculptures made during the last twenty years, created by the wind and the salt. His sculptures, sanctuaries of Delos, Gormley’s sculptures Daskalopoulos, breaks with the convention that OF CYCLADES including 5 specially commissioned new works, taking naturalistic, cubic and more abstracted are in dynamic context with with the island’s limits the contemporary art foundation of a both at the periphery and integrated amongst forms, either stand or lie on the ground, exposed antiquities and are absorbed, almost collector to a single place. Delos’s archaeological sites. to the elements. Interacting with the island’s organically, by the ancient landscape. topography, the works appear and disappear. NEON’s space is
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