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The Artist Project: Cornelia Parker

Sep 16, 2015 3 MINUTES
"It's almost like if you could rewind the film and a second later he'd be alive again."

Cornelia Parker reflects on Robert Capa's "The Falling Soldier" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Cornelia Parker, born in 1956, is a British sculptor and installation artist.

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Installation photograph of

Cornelia Parker (British, born Cheshire 1956)

Endless Sugar, 2011

Silver-plate and tinned copper wire; 5 in. above floor and approx. 10 1/4 in. deep × 162 1/2 in. (26.03 × 412.75 cm) long when installed. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Hortense and William A. Mohr Sculpture Purchase Fund, 2013 (2013.991a–dd) © Cornelia Parker

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