The 3 December is ruled Award Turner Prize announcement this year that is coming to an end, this time the controversial and prestigious award, that is awarded to an artist under 50 years and has presented one of the best exhibitions this year across the UK, went to the artist Elizabeth Price, selected from four finalists: Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Paul Noble.
Paul Noble, born in a small village in 1963, is a British artist who trained at the University of Humberside and the Sunderland Polytechnic,online 1987 he moved to London where he began to experiment around the idea of the city, creating one of his most famous works, Nobson Newton.
Using the technique of pencil drawing on large formats which are then "gather" to finish composing each "piece" where the artist spends months working and using the very strictly axonometric, Noble making tasks a developer, represents and plays an imaginary city fully equipped, which includes many hospitals, parks, prisons, municipalities, cemeteries ... spaces that are inhabited by some very special people: a shapeless bits that look like walking excrement that even enjoying moments of passion in public.
A job that looks like a criticism and ridicule of the contemporary city, with strong storytelling, and that the visual style and mysterious theme is a direct referent in the work of Brueghel the Elder, and according to the jury itself "is a compelling life project amazing drawings and monumental".
More Information:
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2012
http://www.gagosian.com/artists





































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