Two exhibitions
dal 9/9/2004 al 14/11/2004
Segnalato da
9/9/2004
Two exhibitions
Whitechapel, London
Paul Noble and Tobias Rehberger. Noble is a master draughtsman, whose wall-sized drawings offer aerial perspectives over a fantastical cityscape that echoes the visionary ethos of projects such as the Garden City Movement. The exhibition in the Upper Galleries is an extensive presentation of his work. Tobias Rehberger produces atmospheric environments that play with light, space, furniture, signage and clothing, inspired by modernist art history and design classics. Sociable, inter-active, utopian and playful, his work thrives on chance connections, unexpected encounters and the grey area between communication and misunderstanding
Paul Noble
British artist Paul Noble has received widespread international recognition for his monumental eight-year project – the meticulous depiction of a fictional city called Nobson Newtown. Noble is a master draughtsman, whose wall-sized drawings offer aerial perspectives over a fantastical cityscape that echoes the visionary ethos of projects such as the Garden City Movement. The exhibition in the Upper Galleries is the most extensive presentation of Paul Noble's work to be held in Britain to date.
Taking us from the Shopping Mall to Ye Olde Ruin via the town centre, what appears as a bird's eye view of urban devastation or ravaged forestry actually conceals quotations from Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat and T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland. Noble also shows an enormous egg-shaped sculpture (described as ‘a cross between a Fabergé egg and a Grecian urn'), a black and white film and an embroidered modesty screen. These works revolve around themes of birth, language, religion and ruin. Whether drawing from medieval illuminations, ancient Chinese scrolls or contemporary artists like Öyvind Fahlström and Robert Smithson, Noble's project embodies a fascinating blend of utopian fantasy, social policies and historical perspectives. Paul Noble has been jointly organised with the migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich.
With thanks to Maureen Paley Interim Art, London and Gorney Bravin + Lee Gallery, New York.
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Tobias Rehberger - Private Matters
Tobias Rehberger produces atmospheric environments that play with light, space, furniture, signage and clothing, inspired by modernist art history and design classics. Sociable, inter-active, utopian and playful, his work thrives on chance connections, unexpected encounters and the grey area between communication and misunderstanding. Following critically acclaimed exhibitions throughout Europe and the Far East, German artist Tobias Rehberger emerged as a highlight of last year's Venice Biennale. The Whitechapel presents his first solo exhibition in the UK.
Rehberger fuses form and function in works that colonise the Lower Galleries and spill out into the city, through posters advertising the artist's favourite brands. Bodily images of the artist wallpaper the foyer walls. Hovering in the middle of the Gallery is an enclosed chamber – like a futuristic yellow pod – with a surprising and intimate connection to a private home. At the back of the Gallery, visitors are invited to explore brightly coloured structures based on the proportions of the windows and doors in Rehberger's studio. Functional yet visually sensual and enigmatic, this series of interconnected spaces encourage visitors to consider the values of taste, intimacy and privacy through snapshots of an artist's life.
With thanks to Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Supported by The Henry Moore Foundation
Image: Paul Noble, Ye Olde Ruin, (detail) 2003-04. Pencil on paper 426 x 732 cm
Courtesy the artist and Maureen Paley Interim Art
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