I thought it was interesting to compare them. To me they have a similar visual impact, but reading a little more about them, conceptually they were representing different ideas.
Anthony Gormley's clay figures are made conscious as he gave them eyes, which gives them identity and being. Abakanowicz's figures have identity and being in a different way. Even though they don't have heads, each individual figure has it's own expression and skin details, but at the same time she has de-humanised them.
Abakanowicz's and Gormley's both have created a mass of figures, each individual figure lose their individuality and become a mass.
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