Cornelia Parker.INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART Cornelia Cornelia (kôrnēl`yə), fl. 2d cent. B.C., Roman matron, daughter of Scipio Africanus Major. She was the wife of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and mother of the Gracchi. Parker's 1998 solo outing at the Serpentine serpentine (sûr`pəntēn, –tīn), hydrous silicate of magnesium. It occurs in crystalline form only as a pseudomorph having the form of some other mineral and is generally found in the form of chrysotile (silky fibers) and antigorite and lizardite (which are both tabular). Gallery may have cemented her position in the British art world, but American audiences know her for one reason alone: her 1997 Turner Prize nomination. Now, a first US museum survey is sure to provide firsthand evidence to back up the buzz. ICA curator Jessica Morgan brings together some sixty works on paper and sculptures, often simple and delicate pieces whose material origins offer a conceptual thrill: charred fragments from a church destroyed by lightning; silver objects flattened flatten - To remove structural information, especially to filter something with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leaves; also tends to imply mapping to flat ASCII. "This code flattens an expression with parentheses into an equivalent canonical form." by a steamrolier; and snake venom reacting to antivenom. Relive the alchemical magic in Morgan's accompanying catalogue. Feb. 2--Apr. 9. |
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