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From top: George Segal. Woman on a Park Bench, 1998; Roger Hiorns. Untitled, 2008. Atomized passenger aircraft engine. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist; Corvi-Mora, London: Marc Foxx, Los Angeles; Annert Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam. © MoMA PS1. Photo: Matthew Septimus.
Public Art Fund Talks at The New School |
Wednesday, February 8 at 6:30pm
Roger Hiorns
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Using diverse and non-traditional materials—from jet engines to bovine parts to nitrates and salt—Roger Hiorns’ sculptures, performances, and installations broadly investigate the possibility of transformation in found objects, social encounters, and urban situations. He is well-known for his 2009 ArtAngel commission, Seizure, in which the artist pumped 75,000 liters of copper sulfate solution into an abandoned South London council flat to create a crystalline growth on the walls, floor, and ceiling. Transformation, by way of such chemical and organic processes, is central to much of his work and is often connected to considerations of meaning and rhetoric. For his February 8 talk, Hiorns will consider this subject in relation to a new body of work.
Roger Hiorns (b. 1975, Birmingham, England) lives and works in London. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Aspen Art Museum in Colorado (2010), The Art Institute of Chicago (2010), Tate Britain (2009), Camden Arts Centre in London (2007), and UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2003). In 2009 Hiorns was nominated for the Turner Prize for his installation Seizure.

Roger Hiorns. Seizure, 2008. A Jerwood/Artangel Commission Harper Road, London. Courtesy Corvi-Mora, London.
Public Art Fund Talks at The New School are organized by the Public Art Fund in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.
Spring 2012 talks take place February 8, March 28, and April 11, 2012 |