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This sculpture was designed by Antony Gormleyand and completed in 1999.
The steel sections were arranged using a computer model with a random walk algorithm starting from points on the surface of an enlarged figure based on Gormley's body that forms a residual outline at the centre of the sculpture.
It is part of The Line, a series of public sculptures that follow the Greenwich Meridian, through the London Boroughs of Greenwich, Tower Hamlets and Newham.
April 3, 2022
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. Commissioned as part of the millennium celebrations by The New Millennium Experience Company(the-line.org/artist/antony-gormley/)
February 18, 2023
The Line (#17, Antony Gormley, Quantum Cloud, 2023-04-08):
the-line.org/artist/antony-gormley
“The Line is an ambitious public art project in East London that connects Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and The O2, following the waterways and the line of the Greenwich Meridian. …” Wikipedia (Quantum Cloud, 2023-04-08):
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“… completed in 1999. At 30 m (98 ft) high ...”
Wikipedia (Antony Gormley, 2023-04-08):
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fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Gormley LUSAS (The Design and Analysis of "Quantum Cloud", 2023-04-08):
lusas.com/case/civil/gormley.htmlRoyal Museums Greenwich (Outdoor art in Greenwich, 2023-04-08):
rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/walks-greenwich-contemporary-art-trail
April 8, 2023
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