Exhibition
Ikon Icons: Cornelia Parker
2 Jul 2014 – 31 Aug 2014
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 1 Oozells Square
- Brindleyplace
- Birmingham
- B1 2HS
- United Kingdom
Event map
About
Ikon Icons sees the return to Ikon of five key British artists from an exhibition programme that has extended over five decades ' including John Salt, Ian Emes, Cornelia Parker, Yinka Shonibare and Julian Opie. A presentation of work by each takes place, consecutively, throughout 2014 in Ikon's Tower Room.The series is a major component of Ikon 50, the programme of exhibition and events celebrating Ikon's 50th anniversary.
In 1988 Ikon commissioned Cornelia Parker to make Thirty Pieces of Silver, a major work in her early career now in the collection of Tate. She returns to Ikon to show a new related work comprising a suspended circle of squashed silverware. A kind of critical response to monumental floor-based sculpture, it also characteristically conflates ideas of preciousness and perceived cultural value with traces of a traumatic event.
