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Cornelia Parker |
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Documentation
Still Photos
      
Project Exhibition
Reviews
Sculpture, Jan/Feb 2006 vol. 25 no. 1
Art in America, Jan 2006 San Francisco Chronicle, Dec 16 2005 San Francisco Chronicle, Nov 26 2005 Recent Exhibitions
One Person Exhibitions
2004 Perpetual Canon Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX 2003 Guy Bartschi, Geneva, Switzerland D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY 2002 Frith Street Gallery, London, England Selected Group Exhibitions 2005 The World Expostion 2005, UK Pavillion, Aichi Japan 2004 Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, Treble 2003 The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 80th Exhibition of Artist Members Swiss Institute, New York, NY, Dust Memories, curated by Emmanuel Latreille Musée National des Beaux-Arts due Québec, Doublures Tate Britain, London, England, Days Like These: 2003 Tate Triennial D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY, Stacked Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, The Disembodied Spirit, curated by Alison Ferris: travels to Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, and the Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
Project Description
Residency Dates: Fall 2005
London-based sculptor Cornelia Parker has earned a reputation for sculptural installations manifesting the theory that matter is never destroyed, but is merely transformed into something else. Artist Statement
Whilst on the Artpace residency in Texas in 1997 I made a suspended installation titled Mass (Colder Darker Matter) which is now in the collection of Phoenix Art Museum. The material used was charcoal retrieved from a Baptist church (white congregation) struck by lightning. The day of the opening of my exhibition at Artpace there was news of a Baptist church (black congregation) that had been burnt by arsonists. I was struck by the uncanny symmetry between the two events. It occurred to me if the opportunity arose in the future that I could make a companion piece/diptych for Mass (Colder Darker Matter) using material from a church destroyed by arson. The pieces would appear to be identical; the only difference being the circumstantial history of the site residing within the work.
The piece will explore ideas central to my work, those of chance and intention, violence and calm, death, resurrection and the nature of the limbo. — Cornelia Parker, 2004 Bio
Cornelia Parker (b. 1956, Cheshire, England) studied at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, Wolverhampton Polytechnic and at Reading University.
In 1997 she was awarded a residency at Artpace in San Antonio, Texas and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London. In 1998 she had major solo exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery, London, and Deitch Projects, New York. A retrospective of her work was held at the ICA Boston in 2000. In 2001, the Galeria de Arte Moderne in Turin presented a major one-person show, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London commissioned a permanent installation for the British Galleries. The FOR-SITE commissioned exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is her first exhibition on the United State’s West Coast. She lives and works in London. View the CV. |
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