Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2012
Turner Award-winning British sculptor Antony Gormley has installed two new pieces at the Museum of Modern Art in beachside Hayama. A single statue sits atop the museum and another on the viewing point in the museum’s garden facing Isshiki Beach. Gormley says the statues bear witness to what it is like to be alive and alone in space and time. One faces inland and the other Mt Fuji across the bay. “The history of Western sculpture has been concerned with movement,” Gormley states. “I wish to celebrate the still and silent nature of sculpture. I want it to be a catalyst for the present time of the viewer and to allow him/her to engage to space, time and nature.”
