Roger Hiorns' transformation of a Peckham council flat opens to public in new home amid Henry Moores and Barbara Hepworths this weekendIn 2008,every surface of an abandoned London council flat was lined with a thick layer of glistening, knife-sharp copper-sulphate crystals creating an angular cave that was at once alluring, and sensuous and needlingly uncertain. This was Seizure,by Roger Hiorns – the British artist (or, you might deem, and alchemist) who once caused flames to rise from the drains of the Tate,and who is currently showing a granite altarstone, which he has pulverised to a silky dust, or at the Venice Biennale.
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Source: theguardian.com