Friday 7 June 2013

Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker, Unsettled (wood found on the streets of Jerusalem, wire), 2012 - 2013

«Frith Street Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Cornelia Parker. In this exhibition Parker turns her attention to facets of the city streets that are usually overlooked, from the cracks in the pavement and accidental spills, to discarded pieces of wood, transforming them into evocative and highly charged images and objects.

In Black Path (Bunhill Fields) 2013 Parker has cast the spaces between the paving stones of the non-conformist cemetery of Bunhill Fields. The graveyard’s most famous incumbent is William Blake, painter and poet who wrote the poem ‘Jerusalem’ (later turned into the popular anthem by composer Hubert Parry) ...» (from Frith Street Gallery' Cornelia Parker exhibition, 7 June – 27 July 2013, Press Release)

Cornelia Parker, Pavement Cracks (City of London) (Black patinated bronze, 206 x 152 x 9 cm), 2012 - 2013
Cornelia Parker, Black Path (Bunhill Fields) (black patinated bronze, 340 x 250 x 9 cm), 2012 - 2013
Cornelia Parker, Prison Wall Abstract (A Man Escaped) (12 x digital pigment prints, Hahnemuehle Photo Rag 308gsm, 82 x 65.2 cm, framed), 2012 - 2013
Cornelia Parker's exhibition view at Frith Street Gallery (the artist is present)

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