Tim Noble & Sue Webster
Tim Noble & Sue Webster
Tim Noble and Sue Webster salvage and recycle objects and pile up rubbish to create powerful images. The works may look random, but they are complex polysemic assemblages. Their often colourful, luminous creations are visually powerful. “When we create a work,” Webster says, “we always look for something that will take our breath away. If it does, we've gone as far as we can.”
Heirs to Pop Art, the British artists denounce over-consumption, especially single-use packaging. In the 1990s Noble and Webster began making imposing sculptures that borrowed the urban aesthetic of illuminated signs and artefacts from the world of nightlife.
Noble and Webster’s works in the Pinault Collection were presented for the first time at the 2008 “Passage du temps” (“Passage of Time”) show at the Tri Postal museum in Lille.
Heirs to Pop Art, the British artists denounce over-consumption, especially single-use packaging. In the 1990s Noble and Webster began making imposing sculptures that borrowed the urban aesthetic of illuminated signs and artefacts from the world of nightlife.
Noble and Webster’s works in the Pinault Collection were presented for the first time at the 2008 “Passage du temps” (“Passage of Time”) show at the Tri Postal museum in Lille.
