Roger Hiorns's copper sulphate rooms, now part of the Arts
Council Collection, head north
By Gareth Harris. News, Issue 237, July-August 2012
Published online: 06 July 2012
Roger Hiorns’s public art piece Seizure, which opened to
critical acclaim in London in September 2008, is
due to be shown at Yorkshire
Sculpture Park London
The artist pumped more than 75,000 litres of copper
sulphate solution into the flat to create a thick, shiny, jagged crystalline
growth on its walls and floors. The fate of the piece, last seen in London in
2010, was for some time a mystery, with speculation that the building was due
to be demolished. Hiorns subsequently donated the sculptural installation to
the Arts Council Collection. Artangel, the non-profit public art agency which
commissioned the work, supported the acquisition along with the Jerwood
Charitable Foundation (through the Art Fund) and the Henry Moore Foundation.
Structure Workshop, a London-based structural engineering
design practice, helped to take down the 31 tonne-installation in February last
year. “We worked with a team to develop the strategy for removal. This included
demolition of the end wall and the design of a skid [frame] onto which the
piece was jacked before being craned onto a lorry in one piece. It was
successfully transported to Yorkshire ,” says a
statement on the company’s website. The work, the subject of a ten-year loan
agreement between the Arts Council Collection and Yorkshire Sculpture
Park
A spokeswoman for Artangel previously said: “After the
project opened, 157 Harper Road
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