 "Breathless", 2001 brass musical instruments, flattened, suspended Collection Victoria and Albert Museum, London Cornelia Parker Cornelia Parker's work explores the uncharted territories within those most visited places and ideas. By harnessing their aura and histories and using them as a material, she creates a new space for contemplation amidst the over familiar. In Parker's hands, nothing is stable. Objects fall apart, collide, combust, explode or are compressed to remerge as new and surprisingly beautiful forms. Several of the works in this exhibition revolve around ideas of the subconscious, they imaginatively expose the hidden side of what we think we know. In the front gallery large fragments of dry soil are suspended from waist height to floor. These lumps are the-now-desiccated clay that was removed from beneath the Leaning Tower of Pisa in order to prevent its collapse. There is an absurdity about removing the very earth that supports the foundations of a building to keep it standing, here it seems to have percolated upwards through the gallery floor and hangs like a ghostly molecular version of Walter de Maria's Earth Room. Another piece in the exhibition uses wire drawn from a mouthful of reclaimed dental gold; literally drawing teeth, it brings diverse elements of process, installation and narrative into powerful alignment. Cornelia Parker was born in Cheshire and studied at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, Wolverhampton Polytechnic and at Reading University. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997 and had a solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in 1998. She has since had large-scale exhibitions at The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston and the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Turin. Major works are currently installed at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Modern. She will participate in the Tate Triennial at Tate Britain in 2003. Ausstellungsdauer: 14.11.2002 - 18.1.2003 Öffnungszeiten: Di-Fr 10 - 18 Uhr, Sa 11 - 16 Uhr Frith Street Gallery 59-60 Frith Street GB-London W1D 3JJ Telefon +44 20 7494 1550 Fax +44 20 7287 3733 www.frithstreetgallery.com |
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