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Major new Antony Gormley sculpture unveiled in Shoe Lane Quarter, City of London The first sculpture by acclaimed international artist Antony Gormley to be situated in the City of London has been unveiled on Wednesday 3 October. The work, entitled Resolution, is sited at the junction of Shoe Lane and St Bride Street and has been installed as part of the re-development of the Shoe Lane Quarter Public Realm. Resolution takes the form of a life-size cast iron figure standing looking out over the street. The sculpture is formed within a mould of the artist's own body and from a multitude of cast iron blocks evoking the block of the urban grid. Antony Gormley said: "Seen from afar it looks like a man, from close up it looks like a city. It is wonderful to be able to site a work that interacts with the daily life of the street. Resolution is a pixilated body made physical that will stay - night and day, summer and winter - while pedestrians pass it by and the tree grows bigger through successive springs." The re-design of the junction of Shoe Lane and St Bride Street is part of the wider re-development strategy for Shoe Lane Quarter, designed by BURNS + NICE. For more details please see projects sections. |