Horizon Field

This article is about the sculpture installation. For the accessible platform installation, see Horizon Field Hamburg.

Horizon Field is a 2010 sculpture installation by Antony Gormley. The installation features 100 life-sized cast iron statues of the human body left at exactly 2,039 m (6,690 ft) above sea-level in the Austrian Alps. It is the first art project of its kind erected in the Alps and the largest landscape intervention in Austria to date.^[1] The work covers an area of 150 square kilometres (58 square miles) in the Land Vorarlberg, Austria, communities of Mellau, Schoppernau, Schröcken, Warth, Mittelberg, Lech, Klösterle, and Dalaas.^[1]

Statue-installation on the Kanisfluh (2044 m), in the background Mörzelspitze (1830 m), Hochälpelekopf (1464 m) and Lake Constance.

References

1. Artnations.co.uk^{[permanent dead link]}, retrieved 1 August 2010

External links

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Horizon Field.

• Horizon Field on the Kunsthaus Bregenz Website
• The Guardian
• The Independent
• BBC video
• Useful information about the project in Vorarlberg with Google Earth application^{[permanent dead link]}