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Saatchi Gallery to Display Joe Webb's PAPER CUTS Exhibit, 3/11
By: Matt Smith Mar. 12, 2015
London, UK - On 11 March 2015, the Saatchi Gallery will open Paper Cuts: New Works by Joe Webb in the Prints & Originals Gallery. The exhibition will run alongside the Gallery's main exhibition Pangaea II: New Art From Africa and Latin America.
Paper Cuts showcases original collages, paintings and limited edition prints by the British contemporary artist Joe Webb. Many of the works will be exhibited for the first time, and will be available for sale.
Joe Webb (b.1976) uses vintage magazines and printed ephemera that he has collected to create simple but elegant hand-made collages. Eschewing Photoshop to manipulate imagery, Webb uses concise cuts to transform the original material into something altogether more surreal and enigmatic. He juxtaposes two or three different elements in each work, conforming to a simple formula which echoes the approaches and subject matter in paintings by Magritte and De Chirico, and to the seminal collages of Max Ernst.
"I started making these simple hand-made collages as a sort of luddite reaction to working as a graphic artist on computers for many years. I like the limitations of collage...just using found imagery and a pair of scissors."
Paper Cuts includes works that explore love and life in the 21st Century. The place of man in the universe, the exploration and exploitation of our environment, and how we relate to each other are recurring themes across a variety of media.
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About the Artist
Joe Webb is a British artist who lives and works near Lewes in East Sussex. A series of limited edition prints by the artists available through the Saatchi Store quickly sold out in 2012 and 2013. Following group and solo exhibitions, Joe has recently begun to collaborate with Jealous Gallery on a series of new prints. These together with new collages and new wallpaper works on canvas will be included in the exhibition.
www.joewebbart.com
About the Saatchi Gallery
The Saatchi Gallery was founded in 1985 to provide a platform to bring contemporary art to as wide an audience as possible and make it accessible. Over the last five years the Saatchi Gallery has hosted 15 out of the 20 most visited exhibitions in London, according to The Art Newspaper's survey of international museum attendance, and is also ranked amongst the world's top five most liked museums on Facebook and Twitter by Museum Analytics. Entry to all exhibitions at the Saatchi Gallery is free.
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