Found Forms: A Summer Show
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The Frith Street Gallery Summer Show Found Forms brings together work by gallery artists who start with a found object or material, transforming these objects or mediums into new and distinct forms. The exhibition will include Cornelia Parker's Poison and Antidote Drawings, Tacita Dean's Significant Form (Group Four), a group of Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press's Full-Stop Seascapes, a suite of ink drawings by Anna Barriball, a new set of prints by Raqs Media Collective, as well as two 'mannequin' sculptures by Daniel Silver. Found Forms highlights the sustained importance of the objet trouvé for contemporary artists.
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Poison and Antidote Drawings, 2010
Cornelia Parker devised her Poison and Antidote Drawings (2010) while on residency in Texas, procuring venom from a rattlesnake farm and antidote from a doctor, mixing black ink with the venom, while the white ink is blended with its antidote. The resulting drawings take the form of Rorschach inkblots, a form designed to reveal the subconscious of patients undergoing analysis. With the Poison and Antidote Drawings, Parker confronts one of her greatest fears – snakes – while also repurposing their venom to create drawings that are at once haunting and beautiful, deadly and lifesaving, inviting the viewer to confront their own subconscious in symmetrical, monochrome patterns.
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