Antony Gormley RA: The Hayward Gallery

Critics Choice: London’s Most Important Building

15 February 2011

At the Geological Society, Piccadilly

Antony Gormley RA Photo by Oak Taylor Smith
The Hayward Gallery Photo by Richard Bryant / arcaidimages.com

As part of the lecture series ‘Critic’s Choice: London’s Most Important Building’, sculptor Royal Academician Antony Gormley has nominated The Hayward Gallery as London’s most important building due to its extraordinary skull-like character. He sees it as ‘a complete structure in which all the load-bearing pillars, lintels and floors are modulated into a building that is cast in one piece. It becomes like a piece of sculpture, like an Eduardo Chillida cast alabaster block, out of which spaces have been hacked and hewn.’

Respondents include: Piers Gough RA and Christopher Woodward.

6.30–8pm; followed by a drink

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