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Publisher: Gasgosian Gallery

Place Published: New York

Year: 2007

Date & Collation: 2007(20 September-27 October)132pp.illus

Description: Exhibition of works by Paul Noble. Several of Noble's drawings feature small scale versions of Henry Moore monumental sculptures, stacked end on end to produce 'rocky' monuments. Noble's sculpture also feature easily recognisable versions of Moore's sculptural works, rearranged to make new sculptural objects. Catalogue also features Noble's Positive Negative, 2007; photograph of Moore within Top Studio - the image has been digitally altered by Noble to show Moore, seemingly, starring at a nude female instead of Working Model for Upright Internal/External Form 1951 bronze, (LH 295). Noble's Monument, Monument is said to feature small scale versions of every Moore sculpture from the six volume catalogue raisonné, re-grouped to form one monumental organic figure. Essay text I see the sea by Hari KUNZRU pages 6-13, features biographical illus, page 11 of Moore with I.M. Pei at Dallas in 1978. Tongue-in-cheek discussion on Moore as 'heroic figure' and the significance of siting his work on plinths. Kunzru states that Noble's Moore seems to be both a person and a place - in this case, a battlefield on which a conflict is being fought between form and formlessness, carnivalesque freedom and ascetic rigor, social conscience and global capital, art as liberating free paly and art as the excrescence of monstrous monuments.