Video: Shadows on the Wall: Thrash Art by Tim Noble and Sue Webster
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
British co-authors Tim Noble and Sue Webster know that even in the trash heap lies beauty. You just need - no, not thoroughly rummaging in the trash, but look at the piles of rubbish at the right angle and in the appropriate lighting. However, in order to calculate the size and shape of the shadow on the wall, the authors themselves had to dig a lot in the trash. But the result was worth it.
Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been collaborating for 20 years. They met during their student days, a quarter of a century ago. And since the beginning of the 90s they began to work together. The artistic tandem has two areas of activity: works in the style of pop art and sculptures from rubbish, which form beautiful shadows on the wall.
The last project started 15 years ago and immediately attracted connoisseurs of contemporary art. So, at the very first exhibition of garbage installations that cast shadows, the works of Tim Noble and Sue Webster were noticed by Charles Saatchi, co-founder of the famous advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. And not only noticed, but also acquired two of the three exhibits on display.
The sublime and ironic creations of London authors show that life is multifaceted and unpredictable: what seems uninteresting nonsense is suddenly seen in a completely new light. Chaotically piled objects, as if falling out of a garbage cornucopia, suddenly cast a shadow adjusted to the millimeter. An exact silhouette appears on the wall, although, it would seem, nothing foreshadowed this.
Looking at the witty work of Tim Noble and Sue Webster, you remember Plato's cave. People living in it see only shadows on the walls - faint reflections of everything that is beautiful in the real world. But what if instead of the beautiful outside of the cave there is just a huge pile of rubbish (such a divine joke)? And the shadows move only due to the fact that the wind shakes the flame of the fire?
And one last consideration. If the famous groundhog Phil (or any of its local analogs) is sent to a garbage installation by British authors for permanent residence, he will always see his own shadow and predict a cold snap.
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