Paul Noble has been nominated for his solo exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, London, which brought together the painstakingly detailed and engrossing drawings of the fictional metropolis Nobson Newtown. Undercutting the precise, technical drawing is a stark satirical narrative which unfolds in the micro-cosmos of these monumental works -from the Turner Prize catalogue.
I chose this sculpture because I think this a very clever way to incorporate drawing into sculpture.
Paul noble has referenced sculpture in his work, and his preoccupation with Henry Moore led him to redraw from the six volume Henry Moore Complete Sculpture (1965-88) all of Henry Moores's sculptural output.
These were, to use Noble's own word, 'bellmerised' (after artist Hans Bellmer) - drawn over-lapping with each other to give the impression they were tied with rope. [Turner Prize catalogue]
I looked at the four artists work and was most impressed by Paul Noble's drawings and particularly his sculptures.
His drawings are full of micro details. I like his use of black and white to create a sense of colour. His drawings are a mixture of sculpture and architecture.
These drawings give the impression that you are nowhere, as if in a desert, and suddenly something appears. It is alien, but it makes your mind work to establish what you are seeing.
They are set in an empty space, and seem to appear from nowhere. Paul's Palace 1996, seems natural yet it is entirely artificial. The background, the natural part, is somehow unnatural. The palace seems impossible a hallucination. But it is fascinating, intriguing.
The shapes and forms in these drawings are incredible, like sculptures.
What I especially like the mysteriousness of this sculpture. When I first went into the room, I didn't know what I was looking at. It seemed like a worm cast.
The shape is fascinating, the colour, the form, the simplicity, the minimalism.
Somehow he really filled the entire room with his drawings on the wall and his sculpture in the middle.
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