I don’t know when university opens up again but I remember seeing and hearing some interesting information on Cornelia Parker somewhere and thought I’d share some here.
Cornelia Parker was born in 1956, she is a British sculptor and an installation artist. In the past she has been associated with the BritArt movement. She began her study at Gloucestershire College of Art & Design (1974 - 75) and the moved on to Wolverhampton Polytechnic (1975 - 78). She received her MFA from Reading University in 1982 and then went on to pick up an honorary doctorate from the University of Wolverhampton in the year 2000. She had been nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997.
Parker usually engages herself with more site specific work, but the piece of work created by her which really got my attention was called Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991). This was a pretty large installation and what she basically did was have a wooden shed blown up to pieces by soldiers. What she did then is the best bit, she arranged the fragments of this shed in a large room (suspended in mid air as well) - as if you were looking at a freeze frame from when the shed exploded. And then in the centre she placed a light bulb, this was used to represent the source of all this energy and secondly to cast dramatic shadows of the wood on to the walls.
Cornelia Parker was born in 1956, she is a British sculptor and an installation artist. In the past she has been associated with the BritArt movement. She began her study at Gloucestershire College of Art & Design (1974 - 75) and the moved on to Wolverhampton Polytechnic (1975 - 78). She received her MFA from Reading University in 1982 and then went on to pick up an honorary doctorate from the University of Wolverhampton in the year 2000. She had been nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997.
Parker usually engages herself with more site specific work, but the piece of work created by her which really got my attention was called Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991). This was a pretty large installation and what she basically did was have a wooden shed blown up to pieces by soldiers. What she did then is the best bit, she arranged the fragments of this shed in a large room (suspended in mid air as well) - as if you were looking at a freeze frame from when the shed exploded. And then in the centre she placed a light bulb, this was used to represent the source of all this energy and secondly to cast dramatic shadows of the wood on to the walls.
Cold Dark Matter: Exploded View
Looking at her work somehow gives me the feeling that I'm looking in to the eye of the storm. After browsing and analyzing many of her works you begin to realise that she is fascinated by cartoon deaths, explosions and so on. Through a combination of visual and verbal mentions, her work begins to trigger cultural metaphors and even personal associations which allow the viewer to witness the transformation of something most inadequate in to something that suddenly becomes compelling and extraordinary.
'Breathless' (2001) - Flattened orchestral instruments, positioned and suspended as if ready to play their sheet music
Looking at Parker's pieces I can see that the significance of each hardware is pretty dramatic, and I think this is simply because she makes no use of a large colour palette whatsoever. But all of her installations have their own distinctive personality which separates every single piece from each other - though it's importance is still there nonetheless. Her suspended pieces look intriguing, I guess every piece fits together like a jigsaw puzzle - and if one piece form the installation were to be removed then it would simply look incomplete.
Bibliography
Bibliography
Cold dark matter:
http://www.tate.org.uk/colddarkmatter/
Breathless:
http://www.cambridge2000.com/gallery/html/P2262143e.html
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