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Quantum Cloud
Quantum Cloud
Quantum Cloud
Quantum Cloud

© courtesy of the artist and Jay Jopling / White Cube. Image credit: Emily Lovell, courtesy Mayor of London and The Line

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This monumental sculpture by British artist Antony Gormley was commissioned for the North Meadow Sculpture Project in celebration of the millennium. Quantum Cloud is composed of a central group of 325 extended tetrahedral sections which are connected to over 3,500 of the same elements extending into space. Evoking the quantum age, and suggesting an unstable relation between energy and mass, it questions whether the body is produced by the field or the field by the body. Visually, it was inspired by conversations between Gormley and quantum physicist Basil Hiley. In its totality, it questions the relationship of the self to the world and foregrounds the viewer's influence on the viewed – a feature both of quantum physics and art.

The Line

London

Title

Quantum Cloud

Date

2000

Medium

steel

Measurements

H 3000 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

S005

Acquisition method

featured work on The Line; commissioned as part of the millennium celebrations by The New Millennium Experience Company

Work type

Sculpture

Owner

Greenwich London Borough Council

Custodian

Greenwich London Borough Council

Work status

extant

Access

at all times

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