Magda CORDELL 1921-2008
Number 4, 1960
Oil on canvas
152.5 x 101.5 cm
When your car breaks and you take it to a garage they have to replace the whole of the defective part. But they can cut away huge pieces of your...
When your car breaks and you take it to a garage they have to replace the whole of the defective part. But they can cut away huge pieces of your internal organs and you will grow them again or compensate for their loss. And also, all the time that your body is renewing itself, so in your lifetime you are remade countless times. This to me is an incredible thing.
(Magda Cordell, interview with Peter Rawstorne, News Chronicle, 1 July 1960, cited in Institute of Contemporary Arts 1990, p.65.)
(Magda Cordell, interview with Peter Rawstorne, News Chronicle, 1 July 1960, cited in Institute of Contemporary Arts 1990, p.65.)
Provenance
The estate of Harold L Cohen, Buffalo, New YorkExhibitions
Outside, Looking In, Richard Saltoun Gallery London, 2023