Four Silver Candlesticks
Photograph
2015 (printed and published)
2015 (printed and published)
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Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed) is a series of 30 photogravures of glass negatives of silverware photographed in the 1960s for a Spink auction catalogue. The negatives have been exposed in their original glassine bags, some of which are wrinkled or bear notations. In one of the six prints from the series acquired by the V&A, Broken Tureen, the negative is broken but contained in the glassine bag. The title of the series refers both to the biblical story of Judas who was offered 30 pieces of silver to betray Jesus, and to Parker’s 1988-89 work Thirty Pieces of Silver (now in the Tate) for which she steamrollered 1000 silverplate objects.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Polymer photogravure etching |
| Brief description | Cornelia Parker: Four Silver Candlesticks, from Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed), 2015. Photogravure. |
| Physical description | Image of 4 candlesticks in a row. |
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| Content description | A photographic negative of four silver candlesticks. |
| Gallery label | Photography Centre, 2018-20:
Cornelia Parker (born 1956)
Four Silver Candlesticks and Broken Tureen from the series Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed)
2015
These photographs show glass negatives of silverware originally made for an auction catalogue in the 1960s. The negatives, one of which is broken, are still in the glassine bags in which they were stored. The title of the series refers to the biblical story of Judas, who was offered 30 pieces of silver to betray Jesus, as well as to Parker’s sculpture Thirty Pieces of Silver (1988–89) for which she steamrollered over 1000 silverplate objects.
Photogravures
Museum nos. E.729 & 730-2016 |
| Credit line | © Cornelia Parker |
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| Summary | Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed) is a series of 30 photogravures of glass negatives of silverware photographed in the 1960s for a Spink auction catalogue. The negatives have been exposed in their original glassine bags, some of which are wrinkled or bear notations. In one of the six prints from the series acquired by the V&A, Broken Tureen, the negative is broken but contained in the glassine bag. The title of the series refers both to the biblical story of Judas who was offered 30 pieces of silver to betray Jesus, and to Parker’s 1988-89 work Thirty Pieces of Silver (now in the Tate) for which she steamrollered 1000 silverplate objects. |
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| Accession number | E.729-2016 |
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| Record created | February 9, 2016 |
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