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News – Cornelia Parker

  • CORNELIA PARKER: RICHARD OF YORK GAVE BATTLE IN VAIN

    CORNELIA PARKER: RICHARD OF YORK GAVE BATTLE IN VAIN

    Whitechapel Gallery, London
    16 September - 4 December 2011

    This display of over 70 works has been selected by Cornelia Parker from the Government Art Collection. Titled after a mnemonic used to remember the colours of the rainbow, the display includes works from across the colour spectrum.

    Image: Daniel Mytens, _Lady Anne Motague_, 1626

  • CORNELIA PARKER: Doubtful Sound

    CORNELIA PARKER: Doubtful Sound

    BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
    19 June - 19 September 2010

    The exhibition, which brings together drawings, photographs and small works from the artist’s ongoing _Avoided Objects_ series, will include new and rarely seen work, including _Perpetual Canon_, 2004. Shown in the UK for the first time this piece consists of 60 silver-plated instruments from a brass band that have been squashed and suspended in midair.

  • CORNELIA PARKER: LANDSCAPE WITH GUN AND TREE

    CORNELIA PARKER: LANDSCAPE WITH GUN AND TREE

    Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
    Open 14 May

    Cornelia Parker has created one of five major new site specific commissions for Jupiter Artland - a contemporary sculpture garden outside Edinburgh.

    Landscape with Gun and Tree is a nine metre steel sculpture of a shotgun, taking its inspiration from the Thomas Gainsborough painting Mr and Mrs Andrews, c.1750. Parker’s gun leans against the tree, possibly loaded, but the human presence is strangely absent. 

  • CORNELIA PARKER

    CORNELIA PARKER

    Sydney Biennale
    18 June - 7 September 2008

    For the 16th Sydney Biennale, entitled Revolutions - Forms That Turn, Cornelia Parker presents her filmed interview with renowned writer and theorist Noam Chomsky who addresses the failings of government, corporations and the media to take responsibility for the ecology of our planet. He urges us to change our lifestyles and bring about socio-economic change. Though Parker fears that the planet may not be able to sustain human life by the end of this century, her work prompts reflection on our collective responsibilities and possible solutions.

  • CORNELIA PARKER: Chomskian Abstract

    CORNELIA PARKER: Chomskian Abstract

    Whitechapel Laboratory, London, UK
    13 February - 30 March 2008

    Whitechapel Laboratory presents Cornelia Parker’s filmed interview with renowned writer and theorist Noam Chomsky who addresses the failings of government, corporations and the media to take responsibility for the ecology of our planet. He urges us to change our lifestyles and bring about socio-economic change. Though Parker fears that the planet may not be able to sustain human life by the end of this century, her work prompts reflection on our collective responsibilities and possible solutions.