 one of Gormley’s best known works, is an installation made up of 60 life-size cast iron body forms and will be displayed on the roof of the 

‘This is the return of the lost subject to the site of Modernism. It is great to have a chance to test this piece of sculpture against the clarity of Mendelsohn and Chemayeff’s British masterpiece. I am excited to see these dark forms in the elements against the sea and in direct light. It will be like a sky burial. How these masses act in space is very important. The challenge is to make the distance intimate, internal.’

Photograph: Critical Mass, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK. Installation view. Photograph by Nigel Green.
