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Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View

1991
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Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View is one of Cornelia Parker’s best known artworks. Parker bought a shed, and filled it with objects car boot sales that she recognised as items that would belong inside; as friends also gave her things from their own sheds, it became a collective idea of what a shed is for. Parker then had the British Army blow it up. Her installation is made up of its fragments, suspended to create the illusion of this explosion frozen in time and place. Lit at the centre, the installations cast shadows on the walls and floor which Parker has said are as much a part of the work as the suspended objects. The title is both a pun and an oxymoron: cold dark matter is the immeasurable, unknowable material that the universe is made up of, and an ‘exploded view’ is a diagram in a mechanical manual explaining the parts in more detail.

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  • Artist Cornelia Parker
  • Artwork Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View
  • Exhibition Cornelia Parker
  • Material FSC Certified paper and wood
  • Date of work 1991
  • Credit Original: Wood, metal, plastic, ceramic, paper, textile and wire400 x 500 x 500 cmTate. Presented by the Patrons of New Art (Special Purchase Fund) through the Tate Gallery Foundation 1995© Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker (b. 1956, Cheshire, UK) is a visual artist considered one of the UK's most acclaimed contemporary artists. Best known for her large-scale installations and sculpture, Parker also works across a variety of other mediums, including drawing, photography and embroidery. Always driven by curiosity, she reconfigures domestic objects to question our relationship with the world. Using transformation, playfulness and storytelling, she engages with important issues of our time, be it violence, ecology or human rights. In 2010 she was made an OBE and elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, and her work has been exhibited globally is and held in collections all over the world, including Tate’s.
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For made-to-order items, including framed custom prints, furniture, lighting and rugs, we aim to deliver within:

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International – 2-4 weeks

Please note that some items are dispatched separately if they are made to order (such as coffee, custom prints and custom print clothing, neon lights or furniture). This means that if you order these items alongside other shop products, they won’t all arrive together, and you’ll get several deliveries.

If the delivery time frame for each item has ended and you’re still waiting for something from your order, please get in touch and we’ll investigate for you.

Delivery costs

We currently offer free standard delivery on UK orders over £60. Please note that this is offer is valid only online. Our other delivery costs are as follows.

For orders under £60:

UK – £3.60 per order

European Union – £15 per order

Rest of world (including non-EU European countries) – £28 per order

Limited editions

Due to the nature of our Limited Edition artworks, Tate offers rates for packaging materials to sufficiently protect the works and a fully insured, door-to-door courier service, for both UK and international shipping.

UK – FREE
USA & Canada – £80 each
European Union – £120 each
Rest of world (including non-EU European countries) – £150 each
 
 

Rugs

Rugs are dispatched directly from the Christopher Farr workshop, so they will arrive separately from any other items ordered from Tate Shop.

UK – £50 per order

For international shipping enquiries, please contact us at shop@tate.org.uk for quotes on delivery to selected countries.

 

Goldfinger + Tate furniture

As each item of furniture is made to order, delivery takes 12-14 weeks, and will arrive separately to any other items in your Tate Shop order.

UK – £150 per order using a specialist white-glove delivery service. An access check can be arranged for £80.
 

Food & Wine

Our collection of food and wine is only available for delivery in the UK. We currently offer free delivery on wine orders over £100, using a specialist white glove service within the M25 area.

Wine: UK only – £20 per order

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Here’s more information on delivery.

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Unfortunately, after 14 working days we cannot refund the delivery charge on your order. You can contact our customer service team by email at shop@tate.org.uk or by phone on +44 (0)20 7887 8888 (Monday – Friday, 10.30 –17.00).

Here’s more information on refunds & returns.