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An internationally acclaimed artist, Antony Gormley is best known for his monumental sculpture Angel of the North. This earth-bound figure with its massive wings shares with all of Gormley's work a preoccupation both with the human form and with our shared spiritual potential. Antony Gormley's early lead and iron figures were cast from his own body. They demand a physical and emotional response, but they also raise profound philosophical questions...

"Sensitive young sculptor Chunshu normally keeps his distance from other people, but one day he finds himself compelled to follow an enchanting scent to a nightclub, where he is reunited with his childhood friend Nana. Under the influence of alcohol, the two broken souls share a steamy, passionate night together, but Chunshu begins to regret it the morning after"--Provided by vendor.

On a vast salt lake surrounded by red earth, British sculptor Antony Gormley embarks on an installation that awakens a small Goldfields town in remote Western Australia. Directer: Hugh Brody. Executive Producer: Brian Beaton. Producer: Jody Nunn.

Rachel Whiteread has created some of the most remarkable and resonant public sculptures of recent years. House (now demolished) cast in concrete the interior of a terraced house in London's East End. Holocaust Memorial is a moving memorial in Vienna to the victims of the holocaust in Austria. Yet she also frequently works on a domestic scale, casting in plaster and resin the spaces inside, around and beneath furniture, floors and staircases. Her art...

While waiting on death row, Jang Jin (Chen Chang) tries to commit suicide in the most bizarre way, using a sharpened toothbrush handle as his main tool. The details of his desperate attempt reach Yeon, a young female sculptor who doesn't know the inmate personally, but feels compelled to seek him out after discovering her husband's betrayal with another woman. A peculiar connection begins to grow between Jang Jin, who has become unable to speak, and...

"Dans le village qu'habite Anique vit Isidor Suzor, un mystérieux sculpteur. Il ne sort jamais de chez lui et ne veut pas être vu. Certains disent qu'il est laid à faire peur et qu'il déteste les êtres humains. D'autres prétendent qu'il n'est pas un être humain. Anique a déjà affronté un dragon. Elle décide maintenant de résoudre le mystère Suzor et elle ne reculera devant rien pour arriver à ses fins"--P. [4] de la couv.

theEYE is a best-selling series of profiles about contemporary artists. Each film offers a rare insight into an artist's influences and ideas, providing an accessible means of engaging with the pleasures and puzzles of art in the twenty-first century.

Vong Phaophanit showed his strikingly seductive Neon Rice Field when he was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1993. Like much of his rich and complex work since then, this installation exhibits a strong interest in language and light, in the painterly qualities of ephemeral materials and in ideas of cultural displacement. He was born in Laos, educated in France and has worked mostly in Britain since the early 1990s. Much of his work now is commissioned...