Sculpture Makes You Disappear

British sculptor Antony Gormley Monday unveiled what he himself described as a 'disorienting' work consisting of a glass box which makes those who enter it disappear in a cloud of mist. The Blind Light installation is the highlight of Gormley's latest exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, and is expected to become as popular as the giant slides put up in the foyer of the Tate Modern gallery last year. Visitors who step inside Gormley's glass box, measuring 8.5 by 10 metres, are enveloped in a cloud of damp fog so dense they can see only a few centimetres in front of their faces. Gormley described the disorienting work as a 'climatological and sociological experiment.' Reactions from test groups have ranged from anxiety to euphoria. The artist, who won Britain's coveted Turner Prize in 1994, is best known for his work titled Another Place, which consists of 100 cast-iron figures of naked men looking out to sea. The lifesize statues are now permanently embedded on a beach at Crosby, near Liverpool, north-west Britain, after touring Norway, Belgium and Germany. (For full source and article click the Headline). Irish Art