"A Small Box..."

A SMALL BOX OF AIR TRAPPED
AND DRAWN

"A Small Box of Air Trapped and Drawn" was a joint exhibition with Ria Pacquée and Andrew Webb. The setting was the deconsecrated church of Campo-Santo in Gent, Belgium, in November 1999. To accompany the exhibition the Artists created a multiple with the same title, which consisted of a small wooden box lined with lead,
filled with soil from the graveyard of the church and closed with a black mourning band.

See; www.riapacquee.be

"...Brueghel's ironic treatment of the myth of man's ambition to fly( The Fall of
Icarus ), to make wings and approach the celestial realm of the angels, raises a theme...[ in ] the work of Andrew Webb: it is a kind of 'weightless gravity' that Italo Calvino associated with a very special conjunction of melancholy and humour, which has its roots in the disjunction between humankind's sublime desire to transcend the pathos of its existence and the recognition of the impossibility and absurdity of such endeavours. We might go so far as to say that this is the very condition of artistic aspiration, and one that impregnates Webb's work along an axis of imaginative thought which implicates the body, the machine and language."
Jean Fisher

The following works are by Andrew Webb