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TIM NOBLE & SUE WEBSTER, Puny Undernourished Kid, 2

Puny Undernourished Kid, 2003
42 multicolored neon sections, transformers. 71 x 111 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (180.3 x 283.8 x 3.8 cm). This work is from an edition of three plus two artist's proofs.

PROVENANCE Modern Art, London
EXHIBITED Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, April 21 - September 6, 2004
LITERATURE A.B. Arts, "Money for Old Rope (Expect a Big Run on Toilet Paper Art," The Independent on Sunday, March 21, 2004; J. Silver, "Noble— Webster Show: So Lovely It's Obscene," Boston Herald, May, 8, 2004; M.J. Malone, "Tim Noble & Sue Webster at the MFA," Big Red & Shiny, Issue #7, May 2004; T. Noble and S. Webster, Tim Noble & Sue Webster: Wasted Youth, New York 2006, n.p. (illustrated)

'Look at us,' they seem to be saying, 'Aren't we beautiful? Isn't life beautiful? Wherever we find ourselves, atop of heap of rubbish, making sex and love as only we British can, sometimes thinking deeply, sometimes just wasting time.' An antiaesthetic of vulgarity rules on the surface of their work. Both art and the world are filled with dollar signs, cheap parodies of Las Vegas lights, or expensive sculptures by Bruce Nauman, with the great Londoners' expression applied to all, and everything 'fucking beautiful'! The implication is that wherever you are, life and art are simple; success is easy to come by, on the streets, or Underneath the Arches, to recall the classic work of Gilbert & George. N. Rosenthal, "The Magic Arts of Noble & Webster—Tim and Sue," Tim Noble & Sue Webster: Wasted Youth, New York, 2006

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