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【英语听和读】安东尼-葛姆雷

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Callum: Hello, I’m Callum Robertson and this is Entertainment.
The British sculptor1 Antony Gormley celebrates his 57th birthday this week.
He’s a prolific2 and popular modern sculptor. One of his most well known
pieces is the huge Angel of the North, an enormous statue which stands on a
hill to the side of one of Britain’s busiest roads in the North of England.
A feature of Gormley’s work is to make us look at the everyday world in a
different way and that is something that I experienced with a recent work of his,
Event Horizon.
 
Every day I cycle to work through the streets of London. My journey takes me
over Waterloo Bridge from where there are great views along the River
Thames. Most days I don’t see these views as usually I have my head down,
fighting the wind as I try and pedal up and over the bridge.
But some days I do stop and think how lucky I am. For many people it is an
ambition to come to London, to see these sights that I can see everyday. So
sometimes I do stop and take a look at the riverside skyline, to admire the view.
A few weeks ago I noticed something a little different. I couldn’t quite make it
out but it looked like there was a person standing3 on top of one of the buildings
that looks over Waterloo Bridge.
In the next few days I noticed more of these ‘people’ standing on top of
buildings on both the north and the south banks of the river. Of course by this
time I had realised that they weren’t real people but they were statues, identical 
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statues of a naked human figure which seemed to be popping up all over the
river bank.
In all there were 31 and it wasn’t long before I discovered that they were all
sculptures by Antony Gormley forming a piece of public art called Event
Horizon.
Antony Gormley talked to the BBC Radio Four arts programme Front Row.
How did he describe Event Horizon them and what effect does he want it to
have?
Antony Gormley
I think it is a sort of infection of the centre of town in order to get people to look at probably
bits of London that they don’t bother to look at. I mean we’re all so busy, aren’t we. We’re all
going somewhere; we’ve all got an idea about a destination.
Callum: He describes it as a sort of infection, which is like a rash, a series of spots that
appear on your skin. The purpose of this ‘infection’ is to get people to look at
bits of London they wouldn’t normally see. To make us stop and take a pause
from our busy lives. Listen again.
Antony Gormley
I think it is a sort of infection of the centre of town in order to get people to look at probably
bits of London that they don’t bother to look at. I mean we’re all so busy, aren’t we. We’re all
going somewhere; we’ve all got an idea about a destination.
Callum: Gormley’s Event Horizon makes us look up but Gormley himself got a
different perspective as he oversaw4 the positioning of the figures. He talks
about the topography of London, the topography – which means the shape of 
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the landscape. And he talks about this as he sees it from the ITV tower, one of
the buildings which has one of his statues on.
Antony Gormley
I’ve learned a lot about the topography of London putting these in. I mean it was fantastic
from the top of the ITV tower looking down and just seeing the texture5 of London and what
an extraordinary, in a way, mixture, of new and old, of the very very domestic and intimate
and tight with its little gardens and then these huge new buildings.
Callum: From the top of the building he was able to appreciate the mixture of styles and
architecture in central London. The old and new, homes with small gardens
next to huge new buildings. He goes on explain more about Event Horizon,
which he calls ‘the piece’ and what it means to London.
Antony Gormley
It’s an extraordinary city that seems to express in its architectural styles the same kind of
diversity that it has in its ethnic6 mix. And I want, I guess it is, a big question that the piece is
asking, who is included and who is excluded from, in a way, this built environment. I’m
treating London as if it were, in a way a natural landscape
Callum: London is a manmade environment that is diverse architecturally as well as
ethnically7. He says his piece asks a question, or makes us think about who is
and isn’t included in this manmade environment.
Antony Gormley
It’s an extraordinary city that seems to express in its architectural styles the same kind of
diversity that it has in its ethnic mix. And I want, I guess it is, a big question that the piece is
asking, who is included and who is excluded from, in a way, this built environment. I’m
treating London as if it were, in a way a natural landscape with these exposed bodies that
would normally be, as it were, protected by these buildings. 
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Callum: Well I’m not entirely8 sure I understand exactly what he means, but that’s the
beauty of art, it can mean different things to different people. What I do know
is like his Angel of the North, Event Horizon made me stop and look at the
environment around me in a different way. 

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1 sculptor 8Dyz4     
n.雕刻家,雕刻家
参考例句:
  • A sculptor forms her material.雕塑家把材料塑造成雕塑品。
  • The sculptor rounded the clay into a sphere.那位雕塑家把黏土做成了一个球状。
2 prolific fiUyF     
adj.丰富的,大量的;多产的,富有创造力的
参考例句:
  • She is a prolific writer of novels and short stories.她是一位多产的作家,写了很多小说和短篇故事。
  • The last few pages of the document are prolific of mistakes.这个文件的最后几页错误很多。
3 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
4 oversaw 1175bee226edb4f0a38466d02f3baa27     
v.监督,监视( oversee的过去式 )
参考例句:
  • He will go down as the president who oversaw two historic transitions. 他将作为见证了巴西两次历史性转变的总统,安然引退。 来自互联网
  • Dixon oversaw the project as creative director of Design Research Studio. 狄克逊监督项目的创意总监设计研究工作室。 来自互联网
5 texture kpmwQ     
n.(织物)质地;(材料)构造;结构;肌理
参考例句:
  • We could feel the smooth texture of silk.我们能感觉出丝绸的光滑质地。
  • Her skin has a fine texture.她的皮肤细腻。
6 ethnic jiAz3     
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的
参考例句:
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏,这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
7 ethnically 5cad57d992c22d4f4a6ad0169c5276d2     
adv.人种上,民族上
参考例句:
  • Ethnically, the Yuan Empire comprised most of modern China's ethnic groups. 元朝的民族成分包括现今中国绝大多数民族。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
  • Russia is ethnically relatively homogeneous. 俄罗斯是个民族成分相对单一的国家。 来自辞典例句
8 entirely entirely     
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
参考例句:
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
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