British artist Cornelia Parker was a little girl in the 1960s. She used to place coins on nearby railway tracks to watch them transform violently and crushed into precious works of art. By doing this: using the power of a passing train to crush ordinary objects, Parker assembled an imagination.
Since the 1980s, Cornelia Parker has produced some eye-catching works of art. Many of her creative pieces feature everyday items like plastic explosives and stream rollers. Tate Britain has assembled over 100 of her sculptures, drawings, films, and photographs of her artwork over the past three decades. According to BBC Culture, Parker’s work ranges from “small drawings made by sewing through paper a fine wire fashioned by melted bullets, to explosive large-scale works that shot Parker to prominence 30 years ago, including the suspended remnants of a garden shed that she persuaded the British Army to help her blow to smithereens in 1991.”
How does she do this? She tells BBC Culture that “Everything just sort of weaves together…The Tate owns all my major works, so they just had to get them out of the old archive. I’ve got a piece where I wrap Rodin’s The Kiss up in string. They own the Kiss, and they’ll allow me to re-enact my work.” The re-enactment is an important part of her imagination and her art. In 2003, she wrapped famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s depiction of adulterous lovers from Dante’s inferno in a mile of string and gave it the new name of The Distance (A Kiss with String Attached).
We know that she likes squashing stuff with trains but where did that come from? She responds with “Oh, that’s from my cave-dwelling days, my Plato’s Cave days.” Parker’s mind can range across so many types of media. From Guy Fawkes to Charles Dickens (Stolen Thunder, 1996-7), now to using a hot poker to single folded paper to create a pattern (Hot Poker Drawings, 2009-2013). One may question her art and its style.
Cornelia Parker is a different type of artist that many people will notice. She squashed coins on railroads when she was little and was fascinated by it. As an adult, she’s created new experimental pieces and modified existing sculptures and historical pieces to create new work that some may question why she would choose to make it. I mean wrapping string around a love sculpture and renaming it after putting it on? That’s different from what I have ever seen.
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Since the 1980s, Cornelia Parker has produced some eye-catching works of art. Many of her creative pieces feature everyday items like plastic explosives and stream rollers. Tate Britain has assembled over 100 of her sculptures, drawings, films, and photographs of her artwork over the past three decades. According to BBC Culture, Parker’s work ranges from “small drawings made by sewing through paper a fine wire fashioned by melted bullets, to explosive large-scale works that shot Parker to prominence 30 years ago, including the suspended remnants of a garden shed that she persuaded the British Army to help her blow to smithereens in 1991.”
How does she do this? She tells BBC Culture that “Everything just sort of weaves together…The Tate owns all my major works, so they just had to get them out of the old archive. I’ve got a piece where I wrap Rodin’s The Kiss up in string. They own the Kiss, and they’ll allow me to re-enact my work.” The re-enactment is an important part of her imagination and her art. In 2003, she wrapped famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s depiction of adulterous lovers from Dante’s inferno in a mile of string and gave it the new name of The Distance (A Kiss with String Attached).
We know that she likes squashing stuff with trains but where did that come from? She responds with “Oh, that’s from my cave-dwelling days, my Plato’s Cave days.” Parker’s mind can range across so many types of media. From Guy Fawkes to Charles Dickens (Stolen Thunder, 1996-7), now to using a hot poker to single folded paper to create a pattern (Hot Poker Drawings, 2009-2013). One may question her art and its style.
Cornelia Parker is a different type of artist that many people will notice. She squashed coins on railroads when she was little and was fascinated by it. As an adult, she’s created new experimental pieces and modified existing sculptures and historical pieces to create new work that some may question why she would choose to make it. I mean wrapping string around a love sculpture and renaming it after putting it on? That’s different from what I have ever seen.
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