Antony Gormley has unveiled his latest sculpture which hangs in Canterbury Cathedral and is made from old nails extracted from the roof of the cathedral and takes another human form, entitled “Transport”.
Gormley who seems to specialise in human forms, is best known for his gigantic Angel of the North and the “Another Place” on Crosby beach near Liverpool, featuring several human sculptures standing in the sands.
His latest sculpture is a human shape made entirely of rusty nails which were being thrown out while the roof was being repaired. The sculpture now hangs above the first tomb of Thomas Becket who was murdered at the alter of Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. Apparently this new work is shows “We are all the temporary inhabitants of a body. It is our house, instrument and medium”, according to Antony Gormley.
Mixing modern art works and an ancient building such as Canterbury Cathedral, which is afterall the headquarters of the Church of England, will likely prove controversial. I’m sure some will even try to link the rusty nails with the whole crucifiction of Jesus, but maybe that is trying to connect the ancient and the modern a little too far.
There’s bigger pictures of the art work on the Daily Mail web site.
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