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Tim Noble & Sue Webster (B. 1966 & B. 1967)
Lot 268

Tim Noble & Sue Webster (B. 1966 & B. 1967)

The Spikey Thing

Closed17 October 2014

Price Realised

GBP 42,500

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Tim Noble & Sue Webster (B. 1966 & B. 1967)
The Spikey Thing
welded scrap metal and light projector
71 x 37½ x 29½in. (180.3 x 95.3 x 75cm.)
Executed in 2005

Bortolami Dayan, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘It is an art of magic and illusion, but it is also an art of direct experience. It combines sculpture, theater, advertising and persona. The artists have succeeded in making their lives, and the experience of the viewer, part of the art. Noble and Webster works are not just objects, they are events’ (N. Rosenthal, ‘The Magic Arts of Noble & Webster – Tim & Sue’, in Tim Noble and Sue Webster: Wasted Youth, New York 2006, unpaged).