It is a great experience to see, so please go see Another Place if you are traveling to other places near by Crosby Beach. A hundred cast iron human figures all standing and looking out to sea is something great to see. I Norway they were at Sola Airport's beach and made flying in or out more fun.
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Antony Gormley decided to pursue art after studying anthropology and nearly becoming a Buddhist monk while travelling in India. The human body, his own in particular, has been his subject in sculpture that explores humanity, space and community
Another Place picks up related themes. It was first staged in 1997 at Cuxhaven, Germany, which was one of the major ports for emigration to America in the middle of the last century. "And in one sense it takes on utopia," he says - "the human need to imagine another life in another place and the founding of a better life on better principles. But in today's scientific, rational and globalised world we know there is no better place. In some way we have to deal with the here and now and so in a way the work measures the distance between the shore and the horizon through repeated human forms. The persistence of the human form in art is an attempt to deal with that question. Sculpture may now have come down from its plinth and where it belongs is perhaps not very clear. And I've tried to deal with that in a number of ways because I ultimately want to deal with the question of where we fit in the scheme of things."
