It's art, Jim, but...

Anthony Gormley's sculptures all seemed to have a massive solidity to them.


All the human forms are based on his own body: he uses casts and then increases or decreases size according to context.


Though I suspect he might have engaged in a little, er, careful addition to his most famous series...

Things now seem to have changed. Perhaps he was inspired by an electricity pylon:


Certainly, there's something about the structure which is intriguing -- an odd mix of strength and lightness:


And that's exactly what he's used in his newest work, Eruption:


Otherwise known as the Crouching Man (or, sometimes, the Shitting Man), this, like Angel, is another truly vast sculpture:


Scaled up from his own body (of course), the sculpture sits in the flat wetlands of the Dutch landscape. The engineering is exactly the same as that used for those pylons:


I haven't yet seen this in the flesh (or, as I suppose I should write, the metal):


It looks like a truly fascinating piece of work, playing games with scale and perception, with what is there and what is not, all while crouched in this utterly manmade landscape.