Edited by Honey Luard and Shela Sheikh
Editorial assistance by Robin Kirsten
Designed by John Morgan Studio
Text by Michael Newman

Printed by MM Artbook printing & repro, Luxembourg
240 x 330 mm, hardback
328 pages, colour illustrations throughout
ISBN 978-1-906072-77-3
Published by White Cube, 2013

Model was published following Antony Gormley’s solo exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey, London (November 2012 – February 2013). The presentation featured the eponymous monumental sculpture fabricated from 100 tonnes of weathering steel, establishing an imposing building of human form within the gallery. With abundant full-bleed details and individual work images, this publication foregrounds the exhibited work in considerable depth, including Gormley’s linear sculptures of solid iron blocks, a selection of working models and schematic works on paper.

This comprehensive volume details the artist’s multifarious yet generative process and means of making, oscillating from the contingent and sensory to the disciplined and calculable. From models reminiscent of architectural maquettes realised in plaster, nylon, spruce, polystyrene or Perspex, to large-scale sculptures of reduced figuration created from cast iron, Model illustrates the artist’s complex manipulation of form across scale, material and space.

An essay by art historian and critic, Michael Newman, explores the intricate dynamics and points of conjunction between interiority and exteriority through Gormley’s practice, reading the human body as a paradox of boundedness and infinitude, a site of continued transformation.

Michael Newman is Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths. He has written books on Richard Prince, Jeff Wall and Seth Price, and co-edited Rewriting Conceptual Art (1999) and The State of Art Criticism (2007). He has published numerous essays on modern and contemporary artists, as well as thematic essays on the wound, the horizon, contingency, memory, the trace of drawing and nonsense. Newman has curated exhibitions at Art Gallery of York University, Toronto; Independent Curators Inc., New York; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, among others.