Antony Gormley / Pavla Melková opens at Galerie Rudolfinum
Galerie Rudolfinum brings together British artist Antony Gormley and Czech architect and poet Pavla Melková in a powerful creative exchange. Both Gormley and Melková look to enhance our sensory awareness of the places we inhabit as well as the ways in which we occupy space and experience the objects around us. In this exhibition, Gormley’s spatial installations and sculptures are framed by his direct drawings and the immersive images of environmental perception in Melková’s poetry.
Together the works map and activate internal, perceptual and architectural spaces, and in so doing challenge the ways in which we might perceive our surroundings and our place within them. The exhibition continues a dialogue between the artists that began in Prague and evolved into the joint publication The Gravitational Field of the Inexpressible.
Photographs: Breathing Room IV [Rio], 2012, aluminium tube 25 × 25 mm, Phosphor H15 and plastic spigots, 480 × 540 × 1150 cm. Installation view, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic. Photographs by Ondřej Polák.