Exhibition: ANDREW WEBB – "I WILL SEE YOU TOMORROW"
M HKA, Antwerp
02 May 2021 - 29 August 2021
Image: © We Document Art
Andrew Webb (1966-2019) was born in Warwickshire. He graduated at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. After a short stay in Spain, in the mid-1990s he moved with his partner Jon Thompson to Belgium, where he lived until 2008, first in Antwerp, then in Brussels. In 2008, he returned to the UK, where he lived and worked in Sandwich.
Andrew Webb set to work in a contemporary way with style elements from Dadaism and surrealism. He made extensive use of language, using visual and phonetic puns and anagrams, featuring humour, eroticism and beauty. Webb's initials – A & W – appear frequently in his oeuvre: this alpha and omega indicates Webb's search for cosmic connection.
Initially, Andrew Webb's work consists of objects and collages with a strong conceptual character. From 2011 onwards, he focuses more on painting, developing a typical oil paint brushwork. He creates very colourful canvases, with references, wordplay and poetic ambiguities. The paintings that are found after his death in his studio in Sandwich often refer to his important three-dimensional works and his collages and sculptures in which the frequent references to missals are notable.
This intimate homage exhibition, organised in collaboration with Annie Gentils Gallery, provides a coherent overview of Andrew Webb's artistic practice. Paintings and installations are supplemented with artist's books, sketches and other documents from his archive.
One of Webb's works, Heavenly Flowers, was purchased by the M HKA, along with one of his artist's books.
Media
>Andrew Webb, Heavenly Flowers, 2014
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>Installation view
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WorksShow artists
> Andrew Webb, Title Unfound, 1993. Assemblage, wooden frame and pipe with glass, 24 x 24 x 12 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Habillé jusqu' aux neufs, 1995-2003. Installation, cotton duck canvas, car paint, stand, book and plinth, collage on paper, 120 x 21 x 24 cm, 50 x 40 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Naked, 1995-2014. Assemblage, oil on canvas, wax, metallic paint, oil, 107 x 107 cm, 24 x 22 x 22 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Habillé jusqu' aux neufs, 1995. Photography, cibachrome framed under glass, 152 x 108 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Section d'Or, 1999-2004. Sculpture, mixed media.
> Andrew Webb, A W, 1999-2004. Painting, diptych, oil paint on canvas, framed under glass, brass letters mounted on the glass, 2 x (120 x 88 x 6.5 cm).
> Andrew Webb, Weg ten hemel I (Way to Heaven I), 1999-2006. Installation, missal, wood, copper, 40 x 60 x 60 cm.
> Andrew Webb, The Line of Saved, 2001. Installation, silk ribbons (page savers) from missals, bell jar and plinth, 125059 mm (at present).
> Andrew Webb, The Half Reach of J.L.B., 2003. Installation, gold lamé, 670 x 56 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Half Life, 2004. Mixed Media, textile, gold leaf on paper, framed, 53 x 68 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Apprentice Piece, 2004. Mixed Media, wood, paint, books, pocket colt and gold-leaf, 26 x 14 x 10 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Unfolding Leaves, 2006. Collage, mixed media, 52 x 42 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Angle of Eternity, 2006. Installation, oil paint on wood with brass (after alfred jarry), 5 x (210 x 7 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm).
> Andrew Webb, The Martyrdom of Saint Cosimas and Damian, 2006. Mixed Media, wood, gesso, boll, gold, velum and missal covers, framed under glass, 33.3 x 64 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Weg ten hemel II (Way to heaven II) (Apprentice piece II), 2006. Installation, wood, gesso, boll, mouse traps, missal, 32.2 x 32.5 x 15.5 cm.
> Andrew Webb, The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, Not, 2007. Installation, gesso, gold leaf on board, missal covers, oak wood frame under museum glass, 126 x 56 cm.
> Andrew Webb, The Not Plinth, 2008. Installation, wood, gesso, gold leaf, 88 x 44 x 44 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Illumination II, 2008. Installation, gesso, gold leaf on board, flies, framed under glass, 61 x 61 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Game 22, 2010. Assemblage, oil on board, boxed card game, framed under glass, 62 x 45 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Approbatio, 2011. Assemblage, oil on canvas, gandoura raiment, 112 x 112 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Waiting for Hermes, 2012. Painting, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Untitled, 2014. Painting, 125 x 125 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Untitled, 2014. Painting, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 150 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Untitled, 2014. Painting, oil on canvas, 150 x 115 cm.
> Andrew Webb, Heavenly Flowers, 2014. Painting, acrylic, canvas, 120 x 150.