Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker, a contemporary British sculptor and installation artist, is known for her innovative works that involve destructive amalgamations of household objects. Her art explores themes of history, violence, and transcendence through sculpture, installation, and photography. Parker's renowned pieces include "Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View" and "Thirty Pieces of Silver," which challenge traditional perceptions and provoke contemplation on vulnerability and transformation.
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Born in 1956 inCheshire, England Studied at theGloucestershire College of Art and Design (1974 75) and Wolverhampton Polytechnic (1975 78) She received her MFA from Reading University in 1982 and honorary doctorates from: -theUniversity of Wolverhampton in 2000 -theUniversity of Birmingham (2005) -theUniversity of Gloucestershire (2008) -theUniversity of Manchester (2017) She is currently Honorary Professor at theUniversity of Manchester She was also nominated for a Turner prize in 1997 but didn t win Bio
Parkeris a contemporary British sculptor and installation artist. Her work frequently features destructive amalgamations of household objects that have been layered, broken, or repurposed into new structures. She has put together themes of history, violence, and transcendence. Practice works with mediums that range from sculpture, installation, and works on paper, to photographs composed out of manipulated found objects and images.
Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View(1991) Among her best-known works is Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View1991. She had the British army blow up a garden shed, whose fragmented pieces she displayed suspended and dramatically lit from within. She describes her work as constantly unstable for example it might be, leant against a wall, hovering, or so fragile it might collapse . It is a universal condition, that of vulnerability. We don t have solid, fixed lives; we re consistently dealing with what life throws at us.
Thirty Pieces of Silver 1988 9 Thirty Pieces of Silveris made up of over a thousand flattened silver objects, including plates, spoons, candlesticks, trophies, cigarette cases, teapots and trombones. All the objects were ceremoniously crushed by a steamroller at Cornelia Parker s request. The name refers to the biblical story of how the apostle Judas betrayed Jesus in return for thirty pieces of silver, it also hints to money, to betrayal, to death and resurrection. simply it is a literal description of the piece itself.
I wanted to change their meaning, their visibility, their worth, that is why I flattened them, consigning them all to the same fate. As a child I used to crush coins on a railway track - you couldn t spend the money afterwards but you kept the metal slivers for their own sake, as an imaginative currency and as physical proof of the destructive powers of the world.
Parker is not interested simply in the destruction of materials, but more their resurrection and transformation. She has long been fascinated by the violence of cartoons: flattening Tom, Jerry filled with bullet holes, Road Runner falling off a cliff. The deaths are only token ones as the characters always pop up again in the next frame.
