This blog has been set up to keep you informed about the iron men of Crosby Beach. The art installation by Antony Gormley is called "Another Place" and the cast iron replica figures of the artist were set up in 2005 on the beach stretching between Waterloo and Crosby on the Sefton coast just north of Liverpool.
Another Place is an installation by the Angel of the North artist, Antony Gormley, consisting of 100 life size figures spread out along three kilometres of Crosby Beach, stretching almost one kilometre out to sea. Secured on three metre high foundation piles, the sculptures are solid cast-iron, made from moulds of the artist’s own body. Another Place harnesses the ebb and flow of the tide to explore man’s relationship with nature.
Antony Gormley says: “The seaside is a good place to do this. Here time is tested by tide, architecture by
the elements, and the prevalence of sky seems to question the earth’s substance. In this work human life is tested against planetary time. This sculpture exposes to light and time the nakedness of a particular and
peculiar body, no hero, no ideal, just the industrially reproduced body of a middle aged man trying to
remain standing and trying to breathe, facing a horizon busy with ships moving materials and
manufactured things around the planet.”
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If man had been witness to creation he might have gazed in wonder at the scene before him; first there was light, then the waters rolled back to reveal the land upon which he could thrive. An iron man on Crosby beach conspires with nature to evoke thoughts of our origins. |
