This December Philip Colbert's exhibition 'Hunt Paintings', at Saatchi Gallery will be the London-based pop artist's largest solo exhibition to date, featuring twenty-five works. Philip Colbert will exhibit new pieces, including the large-scale Hunt Paintings and a series of monumental sculptures. The exhibition, curated by Sasha Craddick, will run over three galleries, including a virtual reality experience, which will allow the audience to immerse themselves in Colbert's World of Art.
The new vibrant canvases on show at Saatchi Gallery, including the monumental Hunt Triptych and Lion Hunt, maintain Colbert's wildly exuberant style while alluding to the compositions of Colbert's artistic predecessors. Colbert's ability to reference the epic narratives and heroic configurations of the Old Masters, from Reubens to Van Dyck, while presenting topical themes around digital media and contemporary consumer imagery, place him in a unique and influential position – from which he is simultaneously able to comment on the world around him, whilst maintaining a connection to the influence of those that have come before him. The oil paintings challenge and toy with the viewer's cultural vocabulary, superimposing commonplace banal objects onto painted faces and merging portraiture with popular culture in a Magritte-like fashion.
"I became an artist when I became a lobster".
A monumental lobster figurine will feature in the Saatchi Gallery exhibition, alongside a lobster army, bringing to life Colbert's artistic personality.
Hunt Paintings marks Philip Colbert's return to Saatchi Gallery after his first painting exhibition was on display there a year and a half ago. Over this time Colbert's intricate and complex works have garnered international acclaim and media coverage. In August 2018 he participated in Unit London's iconic Looking For U group show, and has since held exhibitions at The Power Long Museum in Shanghai, China and MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Chengdu, China, Galerie Nichido in Tokyo, Japan and the Kasama Nichido Museum of Art in Kasama, Japan.
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