Andy Hope 1930

, 2017
Four Glass Fish Tanks, Colored Dye, Apple Macbook Pro 2017, Silicone,
Aquarium Pumps, Javascript Executable Program
Dimensions variable

, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
70 x 60 cm (27 1/2 x 23 5/8 inches)

, 2017
Lacquer and oil on canvas
47 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches

, 2017
acrylic and lacquer on canvas
120 x 100 cm (47 1/4 x 39 3/8 inches)

, 2017
Acrylic and Lacquer on canvas
180 x 150 cm (70 7/8 x 59 inches)

, 2017
Acrylic and lacquer on canvas
60 x 70 cm (23 5/8 x 27 1/2 inches)

, 2017
Acrylic and Lacquer on canvas
47 1/4 x 39 3/8 inches

Lomex, in a special collaboration with Hauser and Wirth, is pleased to present Andy Hope 1930, #believe, on view from November 3rd until December 17th.

In advance of the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007, the housing market bore witness to a furious rise in valuation, a “space opera” of skyrocketing prices.

In the ashes of the ensuing collapse, as in the demise of any market, what remained was a mountain of paper and digital files, composed of mostly meaningless data. Filing cabinets full of spurious research and worthless stock certificates were abandoned in foreclosed offices; outmoded hard drives filled with strings of meaningless figures were trashed.

Using a language drawn both from the historical avant-garde and science fiction, Hope has created a new body of work that activates these contexts to think through questions of value; philosophical, social and economic.

Four “brains in a vat”, tawdry symbols that refer to both financial networks and classic science fiction, converse about metaphysics, unaware of their predicament. Messages of devaluation, revaluation, and fiscal utility circulate throughout the gallery, without rhyme or reason.

Images from comic books, from errant corners of culture, and from iconic moments of art history mingle with signs of terrestrial and cosmic exploration.

The works on view raise uneasy questions about an uncertain future, drawing on images arising from the fallible deceptions of an uncanny present.