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Article: Roger Hiorns: Seizure.
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- Art Monthly
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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Roger Hiorns: Seizure 151-189 Harper Road London September 3 to November 2
It sounds like an urban myth: the walls of a ground-floor flat in a soon-to-be demolished Elephant and Castle estate have developed dark blue mineral secretions. This is not the block coming out in a rash at the rumble of the bulldozer, but Roger Hiorns' Artangel and Jerwood Foundation co-commission Seizure, 2008. Hiorns is renowned for his extensive use of copper sulphate--a chemical compound which turns into indigo crystal when mixed with water--which he has repeatedly applied on supports as diverse as car engines, architectural models and thistles. For ...
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Article: Roger Hiorns: Artangel and Corvi-Mora.
Art in America;
January 1, 2009 ;
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...LONDON ROGER HIORNS ARTANGEL AND CORVI-MORA [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Before entering Roger Hiorns's Seizure, an Artangel-sponsored installation ... doomed row house in ghostly gray concrete, Hiorns created a glittery crystal lining to the forlorn ...
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