Tim Noble and Sue Webster

Modern Art Inc., London (acquired directly from the artists)
Acquired by the present owner from the above

London, Chisendale Gallery, 1999
Ishøj, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Man: Body in Art from 1950-2000, September 2000 - January 2001, p. 167, illustrated in color
Torino, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Modern Art, Form Follows Fiction, October 2001 - January 2002, np, illustrated
Beverly Hills, Gagosian Gallery, Tim Noble & Sue Webster:  Instant Gratification, November - Decemeber 2001, p. 13, illustrated in color
Long Island City, Musuem of Modern Art PS1, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, October 2003 - December 2003
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Tim Noble & Sue Webster: The New Barbarians, April - May 2005
Greenwich, Bruce Museum, Innovations in the Third Dimension: Sculpture of Our Time, January 2009 - May 2009

New Barbarians -  In New Barbarians, Tim Noble and Sue Webster approach the idea of hunters and gatherers from a literal, anthropological perspective.  Inspired by a diorama at the American Museum of Natural History, the artists – a married couple – chose to depict themselves as  australopithecines.  Yet, the hairlessness of the pair contradicts the physical reality of this early ancestor of modern humans. The incorporation of Noble and Webster's likenesses in the figures' faces bring this seemingly primitive pair into the present. Installed in isolation and presented naked to the world, the subjects evoke a sort of exit-from-Eden melancholia. Barbarians incites a dialogue about the timelessness of humanity's evolution, and continues the artists' exploration of themes of ephemerality and immortality.