Go See – St. Petersburg: Antony Gormley’s ‘Still Standing: A Contemporary Intervention in the Classical Collection’ at The Hermitage through January 15, 2012
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Antony Gormley, Still Standing (2011-12). Installation view. Via AntonyGormley.com.
British sculptor Antony Gormley has been given the opportunity to place seventeen new works in the Dionysius Hall of the classical Greek and Roman galleries of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. The exhibition is titled Still Standing: A Contemporary Intervention in the Classical Collection; the unique juxtaposition of contemporary sculpture in a classical setting sheds new light on the Hermitage Museum.
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