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Case StudyQuantum Cloud - Sculpture DevelopmentDesign and Analysis | On-Site Photographs | Work in Progress FilesThe Artist's Vision
It represents a shift in my work, from a preoccupation with mass, volume and skin to a concern with air, energy and light. Hovering above the cast-iron caissons that were bequeathed to us by the industrial revolution, the work alludes to the transformation of classical physics and its concern with the building blocks of matter to a new quantum reality: that everything is in flux and that solid objects are an illusion. Quantum Cloud is a project that can only be realised with digital
design systems and I am very fortunate to be collaborating with energetic and
ground-breaking engineers. The result, a Antony Gormley Design and Analysis | On-Site Photographs | Work in Progress Files |
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Quantum Cloud is a 30 metre high x 16 metre wide x 10 metre deep
elliptical cloud made from a random matrix of 3500, 164cm lengths of square tube.
Diffuse at the edges, it condenses into a 20 metre high human form at its centre. This
image will be elusive, visible from some angles and not from others. The finish will
be galvanised, therefore reflective, the angled sides of the members will make it highly
responsive to atmospheric conditions, both of light and humidity. The outer antennae
will vibrate and move in the wind. The work will rise out of an open-work grill supported
by four 12 metre high cast iron columns that stand in the river adjacent to the Millennium
Dome in Greenwich, London.
combination of art and technology, will be
a monument to the future, expressing the potential of the human being at the end of the
twentieth century.
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