Plato’s Garbage Pile
Tim Noble & Sue Webster
Real Life Is Rubbish, 2002
Tim Noble and Sue Webster. Partners in both life and art, Tim Noble (1966) and Sue Webster (1967) explore the toxic influences of consumer culture through new modes of portraiture. Turning garbage into complex and visually arresting sculptural installations, Noble and Webster exploit, manipulate and transform base materials, often using self-portraiture to undermine the “celebrated” authorship of the artist.
Dead White Trash (With Gulls), 1998, one of their earliest garbage pieces, is six months’ worth of peanut butter jars, soup cans, and other stuff from their kitchen rubbish can, plus a pair of dead seagulls. That it was the same six months it took to make the piece is more than a cute conceit. “As we were making it, we were eating and consuming,” says Noble. On the wall, the shadow figures of the artists take a break with a cigarette and a glass of wine. Real Life Is Rubbish, a recent work, is constructed from studio trash. “All our old tools,” explains Webster. “I was using a screwdriver, and it made my nose look great, so I used it. So we eventually ran out of tools.”
Dirty White Trash (With Gulls), 1998
Diet Wiegman
Regarded from two sides, 1984
Shadow sculpture ©Diet Wiegman 1984
januari 27th, 2010 at 11:22
I have them at my blog but your picture is better because one can see what originates the shadow more clear.
mei 14th, 2010 at 08:33
i love both peanut butter and cheeze as the filling of my morning sandwhich.,:*
mei 14th, 2010 at 11:45
i love both peanut butter and cheeze as the filling of my morning sandwhich.*”*
juli 27th, 2010 at 18:35
i am allergic to peanuts so i can only taste a bit of peanut butter even if i love it so much.,.,
september 22nd, 2010 at 00:02
i love how the way it gos i never seen somthinging like this till this day it soo how do you you say unique and amazing i
december 21st, 2010 at 19:35
peanut butters are very tasty, the only problem is that i have some very bad peanut allergy ,,.
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