Cornelia Parker Exhibition
D'Amelio Gallery
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The artist is well known for her large-scale installations of transformed or destabilized objects that re-emerge in surprisingly beautiful forms. For years, Parker has been concerned with formalizing things beyond our control, containing the volatile and making it into something quiet and contemplative.
Here, Parker has melted lead bullets and literally drawn them to the limits of their materiality. Creating wire grids, Parker mimics the act of drawing a line. Akin to the Minimalist vision of reducing geometry and abstraction to the barest essentials, Parker’s grids transcend the production of bullets as ammunition, Their trajectories have been arrested, trapped between two panes of glass, the bullets’ potential for violence and damage is nullified. Each drawing uses a length of wire that has the same quantity of lead contained in a .44 Magnum bullet. It maps a unique grid that floats in a three-dimensional space, casting a spectral shadow on the frame. Parker’s wire drawings look and feel sparse yet active, restrictive yet empty, still being built or perhaps falling apart.
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Schedule
from January 09, 2010 to February 13, 2010