Untitled
2014
Painting, 150 x 115 cm.
Materials: oil on canvas
Collection: Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp.
At the well-ordered studio Andrew Webb left us when he died on the 1st March 2019, were 5 finished paintings referring to the most important topics in his oeuvre:
1. The Aristocratic Hairline Machine
2. The Line of Saved
3. Apropos Of An Angelic Alphabet
4. Missals
One painting, Heavenly Flowers, and an artist book are part of the M HKA collection.
The Line of Saved was an ongoing work by Andrew Webb, that started on the third of October 1997, in Antwerp, Belgium. The artist had started to collect missals with which he intended to build a representation of the Tower of Babel. This painting refers to The Line of Saved – silk ribbons (bookmarkers) from missals, bell jar and plinth. The Line of Saved was 130532mm in 2008. The bell jar protects and at the same time allows the line – a common motif in the history of modernism – to be drawn out, adopting various forms, changing its appearance in different presentations.
The line is constructed in sections all of which are recorded in the List Of Saved, some were given titles such as Nu Saved, Not and Pauvre Nous. The sections are traceable by their colour sequences as they were found in the missals i.e.; purple, green, rose, green, purple or gold, gold or red, green, white etc. This ongoing work is also shown with ‘supplements’ such as Extract, a piece taken from the line and framed or No Not, a single piece of ribbon found and framed, both of which were measured and added to the list.
