Alter-native trace S3:E3s: Valerie and The illusion transmitters

Andrew Pierre Hart

oil on canvas

2021

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: USA
    City: Washington DC
    Place: British Embassy
    Andrew Pierre Hart explores the symbiotic relationship between sound and painting. His work draws on his ongoing rhythmic research,  and on the play between improvised and spontaneous relations and associations; which are termed ‘generative processes’. In this painting, the artist painted rich velvety hues of indigo and purple as he listened to music at a ‘healing’ frequency of between 60-80 Hz. West African architecture and musical forms; as well as fractal geometric patterns inform his abstract vocabulary, while the figure references the American NASA scientist and inventor of the illusion transmitter Valerie Thomas. The celebration of Black excellence is an ongoing theme in his work and his work is influenced by the writings of American literary and musical figures including Fred Moten, Alvin Toffler and Saul Williams. The plasticity and dexterity of rap, poetry and spoken word is a key reference for Hart. He uses, in his paintings, an artistic process akin to the bricolage-like character of the current digital technologies used by music DJ’s. These  ‘DJ technologies’  are aimed at affecting a flexion and torsion of language and sound, which Hart applies to painting and space.
  • About the artist
    Andrew Pierre Hart holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2019) and BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts (2017). He is a recipient of the ArtAngel 'Thinking Time' Award (2020) and Tiffany & Co. x Outset Studiomakers Prize (2019). Recent exhibitions include Mixing It Up: Painting Today, the Hayward Gallery’s major contemporary painting survey (2021) and Collective Intimacies at Theaster Gates’ 'Black Image Corporation’, 180 The Strand, London (2019). Hart lives and works in London.
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  • Details
    Title
    Alter-native trace S3:E3s: Valerie and The illusion transmitters
    Date
    2021
    Medium
    oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 236.0 cm; width: 136.0 cm; depth: 5.0 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Tiwani Contemporary, January 2022
    Provenance
    Tiwani Contermporary; from whom purchased by UK Government Art Collection, 26 January 2022
    GAC number
    19033