Andy Hope 1930

Andy Hope 1930 (born Andreas Hofer) is a German artist.

Since 1998, most of the artist's works have been signed "Andy Hope 1930" (although at that time the artist was still named Andreas Hofer).

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.

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.

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.

Hope frequently paints over the top of already painted canvases, sometimes allowing parts of the earlier picture to remain visible. Other works are cut into, removing the vital features such as eyes or whole faces.

2013

Andy Hope 1930 presents Earth 1 belongs to Earth 2, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany

2012

Andy Hope 1930 When Dinosaurs Become Modernists, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scotland

Medley Tour London by Andy Hope 1930, Hauser & Wirth, London, England

Medley Tour by Andy Hope 1930, kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany

2011

Robin Dostoyevsky by Andy Hope 1930, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Málaga, 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, USA

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, USA

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, USA

2006

Trans Time, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany

This Island Earth, Hauser & Wirth London, England

2005

Welt ohne Ende (World without End), 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

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