An English sculptor, Antony Gormley, has produced an installation of 180k hand-made clay figures that stand in a giant hangar-like building as part of an art show in Sydney, Australia:
For the Biennale, Gormley has shipped out his Asian Field, an installation of 180,000 hand-sized clay figurines. Three hundred and fifty villagers in southern China individually crafted the figurines in just five days from more than 100 tonnes of red clay. Together, the figurines form a vast sea of bodies that dominates the huge upper space of Pier 2/3. Lumpy and almost featureless, they eerily stare out with blank holes for eyes. As Gormley says, “The art is not there to be looked at; it is looking at you.”
Link to egenerica’s Flickr photoset,
Link to Sydney Morning Herald article
(via Make Blog)