The Spikey Thing

Details

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

Provenance

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

Literature

T. Noble & S. Webster, (eds.), Tim Noble and Sue Webster: Wasted Youth, New York 2006 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
T. Noble, S. Webster, J. Deitch, M. Bracewell and N. Cave (eds.), British Rubbish, New York 2011 (installation view illustrated, pp. 126-127).

Exhibited

New York, Bortolami Dayan, Tim Noble & Sue Webster-The Glory Hole, 2005.
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Masquerade: Representation and the Self in Contemporary Art, 2006 (illustrated, p. 82).
Kiel, Kunsthalle Zu Kiel, Heavy Metal: on the inexplicable ease of material, 2008-2009 (illustrated, p. 26).

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer’s Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.

Further Details

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artists.

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Lot Essay

‘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).

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