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113: 31: 239:, reported on 22 September 2015 of the pending installation of the first sculpture in the Avon River, just upstream from the Gloucester Street Bridge. A 6 metres (20 ft) pile was screwed into the riverbed, and the sculpture installed onto this foundation on 29 September. This was the first work of Gormley installed in New Zealand. 165:
Christchurch is a well-ordered city based on a 19th century urban plan which suddenly became chaotic through planetary forces rupturing human design. SCAPE 8 presents the ideal opportunity to ask whether art can instigate and give space for new attitudes and begin to heal and encourage
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The first announcement about the legacy (i.e. permanent) artworks by Gormley was made in April 2015, when it was revealed that his work was to be installed in Christchurch as part of the Scape8 public art exhibition, to be held from 3 October to 15 November 2015.
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Gormley visited Christchurch in 2007 and remembers it as a city "blessed with open spaces and relatively wide streets and no great high-rises". The central city received massive damage in the February
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reconciliation. Post-quake, this city is a human habitat forced by nature to reformulate. The attitude of the work I have made for it carries a sense of reflection or 'taking stock'.
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Gormley stated that he made his work available at a discounted rate, and had therefore asked for the price not to be revealed. The purchase and installation was funded by
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502,500 towards the cost, whilst CERA would not disclose the size of their contribution.
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The second sculpture was unveiled in the Northern Quadrangle of the
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in September 2015. The second in the Northern Quadrangle of the
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Sculptures by Antony Gormley in Christchurch, New Zealand
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Avon River
Antony Gormley
cast iron
Christchurch
Christchurch City Council

cast iron
Antony Gormley
central city
Christchurch
Avon River
Christchurch Arts Centre
2011 Christchurch earthquake
Christchurch City Council
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority
NZ$
43°31′48.43″S 172°38′0.88″E / 43.5301194°S 172.6335778°E / -43.5301194; 172.6335778
The Press
43°31′52.58″S 172°37′41.82″E / 43.5312722°S 172.6282833°E / -43.5312722; 172.6282833
Christchurch Arts Centre


"Internationally Renowned Sculptor Antony Gormley's Public Artwork Legacy for Christchurch is Complete"




"Antony Gormley's sculpture for Christchurch city centre revealed"
The Press

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