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Philip Colbert
The artist featured in the first exhibition in Japan presented by Pearl Lam Galleries, a gallery based in Hong Kong and Shanghai and active in art fairs around the world is Philip Colbert.
Colbert establishes a dialogue between contemporary popular culture and art historical norms through the perspective of his iconic motif, the lobster. His hyper-pop aesthetic intertwines the everyday and digital symbolism through pictorial compositional studies and contemporary art theory.
Colbert also follows the work of early formative Pop Art artists such as Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist, as well as the techniques of old masters such as Peter Paul Rubens. He works across painting, sculpture, furniture, design, and digital art, and the iconography of the lobster plays a central role in his work.
The kaleidoscopically designed iconography that fills the floor and walls is a challenge to maximize the limited size of the gallery space, in which Colbert's various lobsters enjoy unbridled freedom. By staging the fictional dwellings of sea crustaceans, the viewer is immersed in a hyper-pop world filled with the artist's imagination.
Colbert references pop symbols from his surroundings and recycles these icons into lobster costumes for the "Collaboration Series," demonstrating the power of art to reshape work that is often bound by canonical norms. In the "Self-Portrait" series, he revisits the classic idea of the artist holding a paintbrush and speaks of the existential angst that accompanies the search for meaning in the process of painting. The deeper one looks into his work, the harder it becomes to understand its intent and the more puzzling it may become.
In the guise of pop, color, and humor, "Lobsteropolis" pushes the limits of self-expression in a hyper-consumer society and elevates the harsh practices of everyday self-transgression.
Colbert establishes a dialogue between contemporary popular culture and art historical norms through the perspective of his iconic motif, the lobster. His hyper-pop aesthetic intertwines the everyday and digital symbolism through pictorial compositional studies and contemporary art theory.
Colbert also follows the work of early formative Pop Art artists such as Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist, as well as the techniques of old masters such as Peter Paul Rubens. He works across painting, sculpture, furniture, design, and digital art, and the iconography of the lobster plays a central role in his work.
The kaleidoscopically designed iconography that fills the floor and walls is a challenge to maximize the limited size of the gallery space, in which Colbert's various lobsters enjoy unbridled freedom. By staging the fictional dwellings of sea crustaceans, the viewer is immersed in a hyper-pop world filled with the artist's imagination.
Colbert references pop symbols from his surroundings and recycles these icons into lobster costumes for the "Collaboration Series," demonstrating the power of art to reshape work that is often bound by canonical norms. In the "Self-Portrait" series, he revisits the classic idea of the artist holding a paintbrush and speaks of the existential angst that accompanies the search for meaning in the process of painting. The deeper one looks into his work, the harder it becomes to understand its intent and the more puzzling it may become.
In the guise of pop, color, and humor, "Lobsteropolis" pushes the limits of self-expression in a hyper-consumer society and elevates the harsh practices of everyday self-transgression.
Schedule | Jan 24 (Tue) 2023-Feb 24 (Fri) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | M5 Gallery https://www.instagram.com/m5.gallery  | ||||
| Location | 1F Shin Yurakucho Bldg., 1-12-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0006 | ||||
| Access | Direct walk from exit D2 at Yurakucho Station on the Yurakucho line, 1 minute walk from the Central West exit of Yurakucho Station on the JR Yamanote and Keihin Tohoku lines, 2 minute walk from exit B1 at Hibiya Station on the Toei Mita line. | ||||
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