Antony Gormley Inextricable

Inextricable is published to mark Antony Gormley’s two-part exhibition of the same name at Thaddaeus Ropac and White Cube, Seoul, which used sculpture to examine the freedoms and constraints shaped by the built environment and their impact on the body. Designed by Studio Mathias Clottu, the catalogue documents the exhibition through extensive installation photography, situating Gormley’s sculpture both within the urban fabric of Seoul and the distinctive architectures of the two galleries.

An essay by architect and historian Noam Andrews places Gormley’s work in the cultural and religious history of geometry, from Pythagoras and Plato to Christian iconography of the Crucifixion. Understanding geometry as both a spatial and spiritual force, Andrews suggests that Gormley’s geometric reconfigurations of the body form ‘a connective tissue that binds the body to context and context to cosmos’.

Author bio
Noam Andrews is an architect, historian of science and director of Studio Partisan in Brussels. His book, The Polyhedrists, was published by MIT Press in 2022. He is a visiting scholar at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.

Edited and co-ordinated by Michael Green, Honey Luard, Polly Robinson Gaer and Hannah Kim
Designed by Studio Mathias Clottu
Printed by Verona Libri, Italy