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Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2024 opens featuring Antony Gormley
The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial is one of the largest art festivals in the world. As part of the 2024 edition, the Triennial has commissioned a new sculpture titled Man:Rock V (2024). Here, a body quietly clasps a naturally formed stone and conforms to its shape. The work holds a trace of the artist’s body on its surface; a single continuous line on the cusp between drawing and the promise of form.
Sited within the former Koryu shrine in Nakajao, Tokamachi, Gormley’s Man:Rock V is returned to the elements, placed among trees, wild plants and stone. It asks us to reflect on the dependency between humankind and the earth, and our roles as co-inhabitors and creators of this planet.
This is the second work by Antony Gormley commissioned by the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial; Another Singularity (Japan) has been on view since 2009.
Photograph: Man Rock I, 1982, Portland stone, 60 × 80 × 60 cm. Photograph by Duccio Benvenuti/Galleria Continua.