Cornelia Parker
07 Mar - 24 Apr 2008
CORNELIA PARKER
Frith Street Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Cornelia Parker. Parker is known for her intriguing installations of found and manipulated objects. She focuses on people, places and ideas that have become so established in the public consciousness they have become monuments, or even cliches. From a feather extracted from Sigmund Freud's pillow to flattened brass band, from a silver spoon to the height of Niagara Falls - the artist's work ranges from the microscopic to the epic, conceptually unravelling icons of both high and low culture.
In the exhibition, Parker explores idea of 'Latent News', a surrealist game in which newspaper articles are cut into individual words and phrases and rapidly reassembled to make some other kind of sense. (The 'cut-up' technique has long been used by writers and musicians, and now has become even more ubiquitous in the form of Spam.) With the help of the innocent hand of her 6-year-old daughter, Lily, new mantras are spelled out.
Exploring the theme in a different way is a series of photographic works - from images of discarded newspapers to the pitches staked out by tabloid photographers at the East End funeral of Reggie Kray. New sculptural works take the form of shelters made from nets suspended from the gallery ceiling. The nets drape and overlap, the moire of black meshes resembling minimalist drawings in three dimensions.
Cornelia Parker's video work 'Chomskian Abstract' is on show at The Whitechapel Art Gallery from 13 February until 30 March. Upcoming shows include the 2008 Sydney Biennale and a major solo exhibition at Reina Sophia, Madrid in 2009. Parker has had solo exhibitions at The Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, ICA, Philadelphia, Aspen Museum of Art, Colorado, Chicago Arts Club, ICA Boston, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth and at the Ikon Gallery 2007. Recent group exhibitions include the Tate Triennial, Tate Britain 2003, Living in the Material World, National Art Center Tokyo, Japan 2006, The 8th International Sharjah Biennial, UEA 2007. Her installation 'Breathless' can currently be viewed at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Parker's work is represented in many international collections including The Tate Gallery, London, The Caixa Foundation, Barcelona/ Madrid, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997.
Frith Street Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Cornelia Parker. Parker is known for her intriguing installations of found and manipulated objects. She focuses on people, places and ideas that have become so established in the public consciousness they have become monuments, or even cliches. From a feather extracted from Sigmund Freud's pillow to flattened brass band, from a silver spoon to the height of Niagara Falls - the artist's work ranges from the microscopic to the epic, conceptually unravelling icons of both high and low culture.
In the exhibition, Parker explores idea of 'Latent News', a surrealist game in which newspaper articles are cut into individual words and phrases and rapidly reassembled to make some other kind of sense. (The 'cut-up' technique has long been used by writers and musicians, and now has become even more ubiquitous in the form of Spam.) With the help of the innocent hand of her 6-year-old daughter, Lily, new mantras are spelled out.
Exploring the theme in a different way is a series of photographic works - from images of discarded newspapers to the pitches staked out by tabloid photographers at the East End funeral of Reggie Kray. New sculptural works take the form of shelters made from nets suspended from the gallery ceiling. The nets drape and overlap, the moire of black meshes resembling minimalist drawings in three dimensions.
Cornelia Parker's video work 'Chomskian Abstract' is on show at The Whitechapel Art Gallery from 13 February until 30 March. Upcoming shows include the 2008 Sydney Biennale and a major solo exhibition at Reina Sophia, Madrid in 2009. Parker has had solo exhibitions at The Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, ICA, Philadelphia, Aspen Museum of Art, Colorado, Chicago Arts Club, ICA Boston, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth and at the Ikon Gallery 2007. Recent group exhibitions include the Tate Triennial, Tate Britain 2003, Living in the Material World, National Art Center Tokyo, Japan 2006, The 8th International Sharjah Biennial, UEA 2007. Her installation 'Breathless' can currently be viewed at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Parker's work is represented in many international collections including The Tate Gallery, London, The Caixa Foundation, Barcelona/ Madrid, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997.