Andrew Webb
image: (c) M HKA, Collectie M HKA / Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap
A poem in one of the artist’s books:
The persistent fluttering
of the butterfly
outside my window,
casts its shadow,
dancing, on the studio floor.
It can see I am painting,
Heavenly Flowers.
Possibly the oldest three dimensional imagery is the hole. Is a three-dimensional representation of a hole actually a hole and therefore not a representation? In Apropos of an Angelic Alphabet, 2014, twenty-six holes are painted, in two dimensions. Their unique shapes arrived at by burning real holes in a sheet of cardboard (1995). Holes are also depicted in more hand prints in Holy See, 2014; perhaps Christ’s wounds. And it was through a small hole in a door in 1927, that Howard Carter peered and declared; “I can see wonderful things”.
See studies in Andrew Webb’s notebooks to number, colour and construct the holes in the paintings and drawings.
