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Diamond Corn

CANTOR, Mircea

© Mircea Cantor/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Mircea Cantor’s Diamond Corn is a sculpture made of glass crystal and was awarded the Derek Williams Trust Artes Mundi purchase prize in 2011. In his work, Cantor encourages discussions on immigration, identity and wealth are global issues, though our experiences are all different. For this work, the artist made a beautiful sculptural object out of basic food stuff which looks at the inequality between the global north and global south, food poverty, and environment destruction for food production.


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Details

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 29710

Creation/Production

CANTOR, Mircea
Date: 2005

Acquisition

Gift: DWT, 24/3/2011
Given by The Derek Williams Trust

Measurements

Length (cm): 21.2
Width (cm): 5.2

Material

crystal glass

Location

In store
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  • Art And Design Movements
  • Cantor, Mircea
  • Daily Life
  • Fine Art
  • Food And Drink
  • Sculpture

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