In 2011 Tim Noble and Sue Webster exhibited their work Turning the Seventh Corner at the very noteworthy gallery Blain Southern in Berlin. This golden work of intricacies, of hidden gems and debris created astonishing shadow portraits on the walls. Blain Southern has four galleries of which two of them are in London. Now it’s time for the Hanover Square location in London to host these geniuses of shadows and intricacies and their new installation Nihilistic Optimistic.
In My Beautiful Mistake (one of the works featured in the installation) there are however no light source creating the typical shadows of Noble and Webster. Instead the viewer has to focus on the actual materials used in their sculptures, which this time around also are more rustic and abstract. About this interesting development Tim Noble says; ‘There was kind of deliberate choice not to use such recognisible objects anymore, and to start fracturing things up – splintering things. So the mind has to wander in a different way, like you’re giving and taking, and it’s as much about the gaps and holes in between’.
Nihilistic Optimistic looks as promising as can be. The exhibition lasts until November 24th 2012.
