Andy Hope 1930
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Andy Hope 1930 (born Andreas Hofer) is a German artist.
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[edit] Signature
Since 1998 most of the artist's works are signed ‘Andy Hope 1930’ (although at that time the artist was still named Andreas Hofer).[1][opinion]
[edit] Style
Hope's style borrows from Thriftstore painting, comic books and science fiction illustration, mixing these elements with artistic positions such as those of Kasimir Malevich, James Ensor, Marcel Duchamp and Paul Klee. He creates over-paintings, collages and cut-outs: using pencils, coloured pencils and felt-tip pens, oil, enamel, and acrylic, on such supports as cardboard, paper, canvas, recycled materials and hand-made tapestries. He also makes films and sculptures, and text too plays a major role in his works. His subject matter encompasses superheroes, dinosaurs, devils, spaceships and historical villains.[2][3]
[edit] Junk Shop
In 1996, Andy Hope moved the contents of the Munich thrift store Puschmann to an art space where they were assembled for sale together with works from a number of other artists. Paintings and drawings by Andy Hope depicting landscapes and replicating famous works by Kazimir Malevich were stuck on top of patterned wallpaper.
[edit] Superheroes
Hope’s oeuvre is populated by superheroes from the Golden and Silver Age of Comics — Flash Gordon, Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman — and such futuristic objects as spaceships, laser beams and fantastic uniforms. A series of works focusing on Flash Gordon was followed by the exhibition ‘Batman Gallery’, 2004.
[edit] Phantoms
Hope frequently paints over the top of already painted canvases, sometimes allowing parts of the earlier picture to remain visible.[4] Other works are cut into, removing the vital features such as eyes or whole faces.
[edit] Selected solo exhibitions
2011
Robin Dostoyevsky by Andy Hope 1930, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga, Spain
0,10 and a half by Andy Hope 1930, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany
2010
Andy Hope 1930 at the Freud, The Freud Museum, London, England
Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
ON TIME, Metro Pictures, New York NY
2009
White Space Black, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Andy Hope 1930, Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
air tsu dni oui sélavy, Hauser & Wirth London, England
Andy Hope 1930, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
2008
Valleys of Neptune, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, Germany
Phantom Gallery, Hauser & Wirth Zürich and 7556 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles CA
City of Sokrates, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany
2007
The Long Tomorrow, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
Sweet Troubled Souls, Silverbridge and Hauser & Wirth, private apartment Yola Noujam, Paris, France
Only Gods could survive, Metro Pictures, New York NY
2006
Trans Time, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany
This Island Earth, Hauser & Wirth London, England
2005
Welt ohne Ende, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Galassia che vai, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Vienna, Austria
Neverworld Technik, Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany (with André Butzer)
2004
Batman Gallery, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, Germany
2002
Hinter den Hügeln, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, Germany
1996
c/o Puschmann, Ausstellungsraum Balenstrasse, Munich, Germany
[edit] Selected group exhibitions
2012
Medley Tour by Andy Hope 1930, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany Hauser & Wirth, London, England
2011
Der Traum vom Fliegen - The Art of Flying, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2010
Was tun? Was geschieht?, Sammlung Rheingold, Düsseldorf, Germany
Born in Dystopia, Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris, France
Permanent Trouble. Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp, München / Art from the Kopp Collection, Munich, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany
"I really don't know what art is". Insights into a private collection, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
Real Presences. Marcel Broodthaers today, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
If not in this period of time. Contemporary German Painting 1989 - 2010, MASP Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
2009
MAN SON 1969. The Horror of the Situation, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
amor fati, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany
2008
Vertrautes Terrain - Contemporary Art in / about Germany, ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Back to Black. Black in current painting, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
Ad Absurdum. Energies of the Absurd from Modernism till Today, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
2007
Paul Thek. Werkschau im Kontext zeitgenössischer Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
Perspektive 07, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
Euro-Centric, Part 1: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL
Made in Germany, Kestner Gesellschaft, Sprengel Museum, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany
There is never a stop and never a finish - In Memoriam Jason Rhoades, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
2005
Schwarz, Brot, Gold, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Goetz meets Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg / Phoenix Kunststiftung, Hamburg, Germany
Les Grands Spectacles, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2004
Direkte Malerei / Direct Painting, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Heimweh: Young German Art, Haunch of Venison, London, England
2003
Actionbutton, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Deutschemalereizweitausenddrei, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2001
Viva November, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
[edit] References and notes
- ^ Barbara Fischer, ‘Universum - Multiversum’, Künstler Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Edition 93, Magazine 4, page2
- ^ See Stephan Urbaschek, ‘Science Fiction and Personal Fiction: From the Mesozoic to the Multiverse in the Year 4419. A Tour of the Exhibition’, Andreas Hofer. Andy Hope 1930, Sammlung Goetz, p. 65.
- ^ Noemi Smolik, ‘Andreas Hofer. Goetz Collection’, Artforum, March 2010
- ^ Barbara Fischer, ‘Universum - Multiversum’, Künstler Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Edition 93, Magazine 4, page 2-3
