Foundling Fellow Cornelia Parker has invited over 60聽artists from a range of creative disciplines to respond to the theme of 鈥榝ound鈥, reflecting on the Museum鈥檚 long-standing history and heritage. Opening on 27 May, this聽major exhibition titled聽贵辞耻苍诲听will combine new and existing work with historic objects from聽the museum’s permanent collection.
Taking on the role of curator, English sculptor and installation artist Parker has been inspired, in part, by the museum’s 18th century tokens: small items left by mothers with their babies as a聽means of identification should they ever return to the Foundling Hospital to claim their child.聽鈥淚n order for something to be 鈥榝ound鈥, it has to at some point in its history been 鈥榣ost鈥 鈥 says Parker. Her intention is to create a 鈥渃ollective cacophony鈥.
Participants include a wealth of key contemporary practitioners: Ron Arad RA, Phyllida Barlow RA, Jarvis Cocker, Richard Deacon RA, Tacita Dean RA, Jeremy Deller, Edmund de Waal, Brian Eno, Antony Gormley RA, Mona Hatoum, Thomas Heatherwick RA, Christian Marclay, Mike Nelson, Laure Prouvost, David Shrigley, Bob and Roberta Smith RA, Wolfgang Tillmans RA, Marina Warner and Rachel Whiteread.
Accompanying this stellar line-up will be 20聽Royal Academicians, whose work will echo聽the role that the Foundling Hospital played in the development of the Royal Academy in London. Founded in 1739,聽 the hospital was supported by leading artists of the day, many of whom donated work, thanks to the revolutionary involvement of artist William Hogarth and composer George Frideric Handel. The Royal Academy鈥檚 origins can be traced to the collective mobilisation of artists and the promotion of British art that took place at the hospital during the 18th聽century.
Found, An Exhibition Curated by Cornelia Parker, 27 May – 4 September, The Foundling Museum,聽40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ.
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Credits
1. Cornelia Parker.聽Thirty Pieces of Silver. 1988.
