Roger Hiorns

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Roger Hiorns is probably best known for transforming an abandoned South London council flat into a miraculous grotto of blue copper sulphate crystals which covered every surface of its empty rooms in a carpet of sparkling shards.

There are three naked young men in Roger Hiorns’ Ikon Gallery show. One sits on an overturned x-ray machine.

British sculptor Roger Hiorns has filled a council flat with crystals and buried an aeroplane. But is his uneasy art really just ‘a symptom of society’?

You always have to think about materials and objects in terms of being malleable – you have to cut them off from what their established use is, to directly interfere with their world-ness, it becomes a process of human empowerment to re-use and re-propose the power of objects simply left lying in the street. - Roger HiornsYou always have to think about materials and objects in terms of being malleable – you have to cut them off from what their established use is, to directly interfere with their world-ness, it becomes a process of human empowerment to re-use and re-propose the power of objects simply left lying in the street. - Roger Hiorns

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The Ikon and Birmingham-born artist Roger Hiorns will present a comprehensive survey of his work 7 December 2016 until 5 March 2017.

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Following the antiquarian Christian Jürgensen Thomsen’s classification of history’s epochs by their respective predominant materials (stone, iron, and bronze), this exhibition, which is on view from February 19 to May 31, proposes that today we are in the age of “rare earth,” the substances that power the technologies on which our society is built and is reliant.

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A heap of dust made from the remains of an atomised passenger jet engine and a sperm whale skull are among the works by artists nominated for a top British prize on show at an exhibition from Monday.

In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions around the world. Our list includes the series Hometown Boys by Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong, exhibited at Seattle Asian Art Museum, Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art and Invention, an exposition that focuses on the interdependence between the Earth’s inhabitants and the environment, the exhibition Books Of Drawings, Beyond Our Dreams, Blame Our Dads, Brains On Drugs, Better Off Dead by Mario Ybarra, Jr. that highlights U.S. street culture, the inaugural exhibition Untitled (Youth) by Roger Hiorns in the The Calder Gallery at the Hepworth Wakefield, and distorted media images translated into painting called Endless Frontier by artist Jin Meyerson.

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Lazing in a hammock that is part of Brazilian collective Opivará!’s installation Formosa Decelerator (all works 2014, unless noted), Nicolas Bourriaud

The enclosure at Yorkshire Sculpture Park for Roger Hiorns' Seizure, 2008/2013, designed by Adam Khan Architects, has won a RIBA Yorkshire Award from

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The Hepworth Wakefield announces Roger Hiorns' Youth as the inaugural exhibition at The Calder, the gallery's new 600-square-metre contemporary

Several people turn away as a young man starts to undress in front of them. It’s not something

Arts Council Collection, which is run by Southbank Centre on behalf of Arts Council England, announce dthat Seizure, 2008/2013 by Roger Hiorns

Lazing in a hammock that is part of Brazilian collective Opivará!’s installation Formosa Decelerator (all works 2014, unless noted), Nicolas Bourriaud

Roger Hiorns’ current solo exhibition at Luhring Augustine—the British artist’s first in New York City—presents viewers with two inscrutable situation

The enclosure at Yorkshire Sculpture Park for Roger Hiorns' Seizure, 2008/2013, designed by Adam Khan Architects, has won a RIBA Yorkshire Award from

The Arts Council Collection, run by Southbank Centre, is one of the largest national loan collections of modern and contemporary British art.

Hayward, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Ditchling museum, Mary Rose Museum and Tate Britain nominated.

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Come summer, the best things in life go outdoors, and we happily follow: lounging at sidewalk cafes, seeing concerts in the parks.Here are a few other al fresco installations worth seeing — some fun, some provocative and all free.