Cornelia Parker - Eight New Etchings

Cornelia Parker - Eight New Etchings - 2024

Cristea Roberts Gallery has launched a group of eight new etchings by Cornelia Parker which sees the artist mine ordinary everyday objects to stimulate our thoughts about their overtones. In these new works Parker turns the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Parker plays with dualities and this group of etchings is made up of four pairs: For Stop and Stopped the artist uses found objects to create spectral still lives with a political subtext. For Light Years and Killing Time, Parker goes further and alters the state of each object herself. In Trick of the Light Parker marks out the symbol of a spade, used in playing cards, on to a light bulb “to pose a surrealist conundrum, a mystery, a riddle, a visual fallacy, a phantasm or even an apparition.” Fallen Glass is also titled exactly to reflect the subject of the image. Parker records an action that has happened in the past, by chance. To make the print she rearranges broken glass on the etching plate, before capturing its shadow. Parker presents small shot and liquor glasses for a final pair of tongue-in-cheek prints. “Singles measure hours of enjoyment, celebration, digestion and possibly inebriation. In Sway inebriation seems much more likely, as swaying and blurred vision occur.”

You can order these Cornelia Parker etchings from Cristea Roberts Gallery.