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Cornelia Parker

Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, 1991

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About the artwork

Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View is one of Cornelia Parker’s best known artworks. Parker bought a shed, and filled it with objects car boot sales that she recognised as items that would belong inside; as friends also gave her things from their own sheds, it became a collective idea of what a shed is for. Parker then had the British Army blow it up. Her installation is made up of its fragments, suspended to create the illusion of this explosion frozen in time and place. Lit at the centre, the installations cast shadows on the walls and floor which Parker has said are as much a part of the work as the suspended objects. The title is both a pun and an oxymoron: cold dark matter is the immeasurable, unknowable material that the universe is made up of, and an ‘exploded view’ is a diagram in a mechanical manual explaining the parts in more detail.

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Artist Cornelia Parker
Artwork Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View
Exhibition Cornelia Parker
Material FSC Certified paper and wood
Date of work 1991
Credit Original: Wood, metal, plastic, ceramic, paper, textile and wire400 x 500 x 500 cmTate. Presented by the Patrons of New Art (Special Purchase Fund) through the Tate Gallery Foundation 1995© Cornelia Parker

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Cornelia Parker CBE RA (b. 1956, Cheshire, UK) is a visual artist considered one of the UK's most acclaimed contemporary artists. Best known for her large-scale installations and sculpture, Parker also works across a variety of other mediums, including drawing, photography and embroidery. Always driven by curiosity, she reconfigures domestic objects to question our relationship with the world. Using transformation, playfulness and storytelling, she engages with important issues of our time, be it violence, ecology or human rights. In 2010 she was made an OBE and elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, and her work has been exhibited globally is and held in collections all over the world, including Tate’s.

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