Noble and Webster and ‘chiaroscuro’
Published three times a year in French and English, each issue of Cartier Art explores an editorial theme or concept. The latest issue looks at light and how it has been mastered through the ages by artists and designers.
Cartier licensed an image of Tim Noble and Sue Webster’s Wild Mood Swings, 2009–2010 (pictured below), which appears alongside Hélène Kelmachter’s article, ‘Shadow, or In Praise of Light’.
Taking in the history of painting, Kelmachter explores the concept of ‘chiaroscuro’ and how representations of light and shadow are intimately bound up with our perception of reality.
In a section on contemporary art, she looks at Noble and Webster’s shadow sculptures. Made from scraps of reclaimed wood and metal, the sculptures take form when their shadow is cast on a wall by a bright, projected light. Revealing two figures, the light creates an illusion, rather than reality.
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Images from top: Front and back cover of Cartier Art (number 43, 2016), Image Courtesy of 22 Publishing; Wild Mood Swings, 2009–10, Tim Noble and Sue Webster © Tim Noble and Sue Webster, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016, Photo: Andy Keate; British Wildlife, 2000, Tim Noble and Sue Webster © Tim Noble and Sue Webster, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016, Photo: Lorna Jane Newman (2 Shooters Photography); Cold Death, 2009 (Trilogy to the Facts of Life, 3), Tim Noble and Sue Webster © Tim Noble and Sue Webster, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016, Photo: Andy Keate; The Original Sinners, 2000, Tim Noble and Sue Webster © Tim Noble and Sue Webster, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016, Photo: Andy Keate; Walk On Water, 1998, Tim Noble and Sue Webster © Tim Noble and Sue Webster, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016, Photo: Andy Keate; Forever (version 1), 2001, Tim Noble and Sue Webster © Tim Noble and Sue Webster, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016, Photo: Douglas & Fran Parker.