Antony Gormley: Time Horizon, Houghton Hall & Gardens, Norfolk
Time Horizon is one of Antony Gormley’s most impressive large-scale installations, exhibiting across the picturesque grounds and through the house at Houghton Hall in Norfolk.
In Time Horizon at Houghton Hall, Antony Gormley distributes 100 life-size sculptures across 300 acres of the park. The cast iron sculptures, each weighing approximately 640 kg and standing at an average of 191cm, are installed at the same datum level to create a single horizontal plane across the landscape. Some works are buried, allowing only a part of the head to be visible, while others are buried to the chest or knees according to the topography. Only occasionally do they stand on the existing surface. Around a quarter of the works are placed on concrete columns that vary from a few centimetres high to rising four meters off the ground.
Some works are buried, allowing only a small part of the head to be visible above the ground, while others are buried deeper, reaching the chest or even the knees, all depending on the surrounding topography. Only occasionally do these pieces stand on the existing surface, drawing attention to their unique placements. Around a quarter of the works are placed on concrete columns, which vary significantly in height, ranging from just a few centimeters high to those that rise impressively up to four meters off the ground. See below several pieces on display across the grounds.
“My ambition for this show is that people should roam far and wide. Art has recently privileged the object rather than the experience that objects can initiate. Time Horizon is not a picture, it is a field and you are in it. The work puts the experience of the subject/visitor/protagonist on an equal footing with all material presences, organic and inorganic. The quality of the light, the time of the year, the state of the weather and the condition of your mind, body and soul are all implicated in the field, as is all the evidence within it of human activity already accomplished as well as the plethora of life forms that surround the hall.” — Antony Gormley
The first time this collection of work has been staged in the UK, ‘Time Horizon’ exhibits at Houghton Hall between 21 April – 31 October 2024. Visit the website below for more information.
