Cornelia Parker is an English sculptor and installation artist. She makes site-specific work, and is best known for large-scale installations such as Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991), where she had a garden shed blown up by the British Army and suspended the fragments as if suspending the explosion process in time. In the centre was a light which cast the shadows of the wood dramatically on the walls of the room.
For her suspended piece ''Thirty Pieces of Silver,'' Ms. Parker scouted jumble sales and thrift shops for silver-plated household items -chafing dishes, candelabras, trays and trumpets. Once collected, she laid them in a road and hired a steamroller to flatten them and then hung them in the Tate Gallery.
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this is brilliant!! i would love to see it. any clue where it can found??
i recently saw cornelia's work in san francisco:
http://winstoninwonderlandart.blogspot.com/2008/09/san-franciscos-art-scene.html
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