The great exhibition of Paul Noble’s work opened at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen at the weekend – [Link] An endlessly growing cosmopolis 14 June – 21 September 2014 This summer Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will exhibit Paul Noble’s Nobson Newtown, an ever-growing cosmopolis on which the artist has worked for eighteen years. The vast drawings…
Paul Noble
theory of ruin – hylography
– the clouds take on shapes almost recognizable – the waves on the shore offer smooth gestures in the sand – the gravestone inscription weathers such that it appears to have lost all form … but not quite This is hylography – the process of emergence and disappearance, intentional or unintentional, of graphical form out…
hylography
I am preparing with Paul Noble a guide to his work, as part of an upcoming exhibition at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. Paul’s vast drawn world (as well as sculpted material forms) – a place called Nobson Newtown (though it questions just what we mean by place) – has at its heart a kind of fontography…
Regency Café
Between Pimlico and Westminster – a remarkable “English” café. Opened 1946, it has the feel of the 60s, but definitely not “retro”. The food is simple – eggs, bacon, beans, pies, chips, bread and butter pudding. Authentic? It reminded me too of a US diner. Definitely another third space – [Link] – Paul (Noble) and I…
Paul Noble – artist | archaeologist
Sjarel Ex (Museum Boijmans van Beuningen) has introduced me to the extraordinary, the wonderful work of Paul Noble [Link] [Link] [Link] A paradigm of the archaeological imagination. Paul has been drawing his Nobson Newtown for a number of years. I could just about tick every one of the categories in my blog. I will have…
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