Body and Soul
Print
1990 (printed), 1990 (published)
1990 (printed), 1990 (published)
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As a sculptor, Gormley (born 1950) has as his starting-point the human body, usually his own. Many of his lead and concrete figures begin as casts of his own body. In 1990 he began working on a print project at the Hope Sufferance Studios, experimenting with different techniques. Noticing his thumbprints smudging the edges of some soft-ground etching plates, he was inspired to dispense with the etching needle and make marks on the plates using various parts of his own body. The result was a portfolio of nine prints entitled Body and Soul, which includes this image of the artist's splayed fingerprints in black on a white background.
Object details
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| Title | Body and Soul (series title) |
| Materials and techniques | Soft-ground etching on paper |
| Brief description | Print by Antony Gormley, untitled plate from a portfolio of 9, entitled 'Body and Soul', soft ground etching, printed by Hope Sufferance Studio and published by the Paragon Press, Great Britain, 1990 |
| Physical description | An etching showing the impressions made by the artist's fingerprints into the etching ground. The impressions appear as black marks on a white background. |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Copy number | 30/30 |
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| Summary | As a sculptor, Gormley (born 1950) has as his starting-point the human body, usually his own. Many of his lead and concrete figures begin as casts of his own body. In 1990 he began working on a print project at the Hope Sufferance Studios, experimenting with different techniques. Noticing his thumbprints smudging the edges of some soft-ground etching plates, he was inspired to dispense with the etching needle and make marks on the plates using various parts of his own body. The result was a portfolio of nine prints entitled Body and Soul, which includes this image of the artist's splayed fingerprints in black on a white background. |
| Associated object | E.1590-1991 (Series) |
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| Accession number | E.1591-1991 |
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| Record created | December 17, 2002 |
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