Antony Gormley review – here come the Gorminators, those welded warriors for humanity

White Cube, London
He is a household name, with an army of lead figures dotted all over Britain. But this show of early work, with its undercurrent of weaponry, speaks to a fear of annihilation in a time of paranoiaIf you think nostrils are just holes to breathe through, you’ve not spent enough time with Antony Gormley. A figure lying on its back, in this show of his early works, is made of solid sheets of lead, welded neatly into the form of a man, based like so much of his work on the di