Paul Noble, Graphite King...

Recently for the month of December, a Paul Noble exhibition has been held at the Gagosian Gallery (Britnnia Street), exploring the detail works of art and sculptures created by Noble. Before I had heard about this current exhibition, I was not really familiar with the works of Paul Noble other then a few sculptures of his i have came across in the past. It was interesting taking the time out to see a completely different style of artwork, a style that im not familiar with. As its been discussed in most of my blogs previously being an artist I about keeping a good, healthy open mind to what you are seeing, hearing, feeling an interacting with in your life, and I am sure that any other artist who will come across this piece, would agree that being an artist is about being inspired by previous and present art work and creations. I was unaware of what to expect at this exhibition and so it was like learning a new thing, a new artist to add to the long list that has been produced almost 21 years I have been in the world...  i was amazed at the works of Noble, his delicate graphite drawings were outstanding, huge in size and meaning, very textured and i loved the trippy messages it uses to invite its viewers. I most like Noble's courage and confidence to create such bold pieces that carry a bold meaning the majority of the time. One particular sculpture stood out to me, in a humorous way at first, before i took the time to read into some of the meanings Noble was trying to create when processing this idea into a real, touchable, 3D life large sculpture. It was a huge well crafted 'Poo', why? Will we ever know the true reason behind this piece of art? Calling a piece of poo art may seem slightly deluded to the eyes of some, associating something as disgustingly known as 'Poo', with something as beautiful as Art? However that's the great and wonderful thing about the artists and their Art world they can make anything have a meaning or seem beautiful no matter how strongly people's opinions and ideas might be on things. Noble managed to create everything that you would not expect this area to be associated with realistically. The Sculpture itself has movement, body and space and within this circumstance cannot be frowned upon. I enjoyed it, and definitely thought looking more into Paul Noble's work was refreshing, the way he likes to create messages within his work so boldly yet, strangely discreetly at the same time.