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Cornelia Parker

Perpetual Canon, 2004

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About the artwork

Perpetual Canon is a suspended artwork, using brass instruments at the end of their lives which Parker flattened in an industrial press, pushing all the air out of them completely. The title is in juxtaposition with this act, as in musical terms, ‘perpetual canon’ is a type of circular breathing – a constant inhalation. The logistics of flattening the instruments were quite tricky, and Parker noted that the sousaphone in the piece is ‘the biggest thing I’ve ever squashed’.

Abstract Art

Artist Cornelia Parker
Artwork Perpetual Canon
Exhibition Cornelia Parker
Material FSC Certified paper and wood
Date of work 2004
Credit Original: Flattened brass band instruments 700 x 70 cm (suspended) Collection Caixa Foundation, photo Frank Kleinbach © 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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