Not on display
- Artist
- Thomas Hirschhorn born 1957
- Original title
- Chandelier avec têtes
- Medium
- Wood, tape, polythene and polystyrene
- Dimensions
- Object: 2800 x 4340 x 875 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased using funds provided by the 2006 Outset / Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection 2007
- Reference
- T12369
Display caption
Hirschhorn is known for his sculptures and installations made from everyday materials such as cardboard, plastic and paper, bound together with brown packing tape. This work was originally part of an exhibition called Concretions, a term from geology and medicine that suggests the gradual growth of a solid mass. Hirschhorn related the theme to a broader social and spiritual petrification. Here the faces of mannequins seem to be emerging from – or submerged into – larger biomorphic forms.
Gallery label, July 2012
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