Event Horizon by artist Antony Gormley

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英国艺术家Antony Gormley在香港开启了名为Event Horizon的公共艺术装置展示，将31个人体雕塑安装在香港中西区的街道与楼顶上。在这个超过半数人口居住在城市中的时代，该作品旨在鼓励人们重新审视城市和建筑环境，重新用新的方式看待自己熟悉的场景，重新凝视大地与天空，反思人性。这些装置将持续到2016年的5月18号。

視界 香港｜英國文化協會主辦, 香港, 2015｜照片由Oak Taylor-Smith拍攝
Event Horizon | presented in Hong Kong by the British Council,2015| Photography by Oak Taylor-Smith

「视界 香港」将会成为香港有史以来最大规模的公共艺术项目，项目有赖得到参与大厦的业主支持，而香港政府亦对项目表示欢迎。Event Horizon的构思是源自当年首次公布全球人口中，有录得超过一半人居住在城市。31个雕塑将会设置在香港中西区的高楼大厦及大街上，面向不同空间，引领大众思考我们所建造的世界与地球本身的关系。

Antony Gormley艺术家自述

在港岛的中西区，与山和海之间的一片密集矗立的高楼之上，以天际为背景的一个个特立独行的人体雕塑静静伫立，全神贯注思考著人与世界的关系。这个公共艺术装置希望能引发观众思考人类所建造的世界与地球本身的关系，其艺术构思源自当年首次公布全球人口中，有录得超过一半人居住在城市，即是说有超过一半的人口与城市有着密不可分的关系。

这些雕塑参照我的身体构造製作而成，标志着某个存在于某个特定时间的空间。这个空间是主观的，可以是我的身体、观众的身体，或是任何人的身体，同时亦代表着一个人体在广阔大地上所佔的空间。这个项目的名字来自宇宙物理学，可引申为可见宇宙的边界。我们的宇宙在不断膨胀，有些物件所散发的光芒永远不能到达我们身处的地方，因此我们永远也无法看见它们。我想透过这个艺术装置提醒人们去思考人与世界的关系。这些雕塑眺望著天际与大地所交汇的地平线，而地平线即是我们所能看到的终极界限。我们不禁会想：除了目之所及的雕塑以外，还有多少个雕塑在视线范围外静静地见证著这一切？我所看到的是否就是全部？

我希望透过「视界 香港」，鼓励大众抬头观望，以全新的视觉审视熟悉的地方。在人群香港这样一个高度密集的环境里，更加强了我们所知、所感和所能想象之间的矛盾。我把雕塑放置在大厦的边缘，正是要贴近天际，衬托于光线与空间之中，在行人的的视线范围内交替呈现和消失。这个艺术装置不设任何界限，将城市重新连接至世界。观众在寻找和发现的过程中（亦或许只有寻找却没有发现），以反思自身这个世界上的位置。

Event Horizon by British artist Antony Gormley officially launched on 19 November, and will be a part of the Hong Kong cityscape for six months, until 18 May 2016. The most extensive public art installation ever seen in the city, Event Horizon brings Hong Kongers a chance to see and interact with a world renowned art project and delight in being the Asian city of choice for the arts – changing the face of contemporary art in the city forever while paving the way for public art.

During the launch ceremony at Statue Square Gardens, Antony Gormley said: “I am delighted to see that Event Horizon is launched in Hong Kong. Event Horizon captures the particular time of a particular body: a subjective place. The principle dynamic of the work is the relationship between imagination and the horizon, involving the citizen in a game of seeking and perhaps finding. Beyond those figures that you can actually see, how many more are out of sight? Where is the meeting place of earth and sky? Event Horizon engages Hong Kongers in the desire to look up and look again at familiar places in a new way, inviting reflection on human nature and our place in the wider scheme of things.”

Antony Gormley continues in his thank you note to the team, “Cassius came to see us at the studio just before Christmas in 2012, asking do you think it would be possible to install the work in Hong Kong. And now, three years later, we’ve done it. Cassius, I cannot thank you enough. You’ve been absolutely fantastic as a partner. There were moments when any sane person would have given up, but he didn’t. He never gave up the vision. I doubt in my life I would come upon somebody with your determination.”

Presented by British Council Hong Kong with support from lead partner the K11 Art Foundation (KAF), Hong Kong is the first Asian city to stage the installation following presentations in London, Rotterdam, New York, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Event Horizon is thirty-one sculptures installed at both street level and building tops across a kilometre wide zone of Central and Western district. In an age in which over half of the human population of the planet now lives in cities, the installation encourages people to question how the individual responds to the built environment.

The most extensive city-wide public art project in Hong Kong will focus the public’s attention on the urban environment and the design of their city, as well as their interaction with it, as they catch sight of, search for and engage with the collection of sculptured figures standing on roof tops and at ground level.

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