No. 6-2

NOBSON

Paul Noble, NOBSON, Museum BoijmansVan Beuningen, 2014

This lavishly illustrated artist’s book accompanies the exhibition ‘Paul Noble — Nobson’ at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The exhibition brings together, for the first time, 23 of Paul Noble’s gigantic pencil drawings of his surreal universe, Nobson Newtown. The works are drawn from private collections and museums all over the world. Noble has worked continuously since 1995 on his imaginary city, which consists of drawings, sculptures, installations and films. Writing provides an entry to Nobson. The entire city is made up of letters: a sculptural, difficult-to-read, computer-designed typeface called ‘Nobfont’. The letters are literally the building blocks of the architecture, spelling out the names of the buildings, sentences such as ‘Welcome to Nobson’ or lines from poems or historical texts.

(Excerpted from https://webshop.boijmans.nl/EN/webshop/0/nobson/1/52689)