Joseph Cornell- Wonderlust
You find the extraordinary in the ordinary through Joseph Cornell's work. In this exhibition, his imagination allows those who visit to join him in a fantastical vision of the world around us.
Filled with objects from the everyday, Cornell’s work is composed of delicate glass bottles, to create 'shadow boxes' transforming the mundane into the extraordinary. Searching high and low in archives and antique stores to find the objects for his collections, Cornell's work explores all four corners of the globe.
There is a romantic magic to his work, when a new box comes together it is as if a small treasure has been found. The New York Times called Cornell “a poet of light; an architect of memory-fractured rooms and a connoisseur of stars, celestial and otherwise.” In Cornell's case a picture really does say a thousand words.
His ‘shadow boxes’ will be on display at his landmark exhibition ‘Wonderlust’, open now until the 27th of September at the Royal Academy of Art.
His work slightly put us in mind of the dolls and crafts in the Selvedge shop www.selvedge.org/shop
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His work helps us to realise that even the ordinary can be made into something extraordinary and aesthetically pleasing. Also look up Dale Copeland from New Zealand.