The Listening Sweet: A Solo Exhibition by Andrew Pierre Hart at Tiwani Contemporary
Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of British artist Andrew Pierre Hart.
The exhibition emerges out of a sonic understanding of the past year with a focus on its particular ‘volumes’ namely the global protests of the Black Lives Matters movement, the COVID-19 pandemic and the storming of the Capitol building in the United States.
In The Listening Sweet – Hart uses painting and sound to formulate a response to the ‘sonic registers’ of 2020 and 2021. He also proposes a sonified, cross-modal space that emerges directly out of these works underscoring the symbiosis between painting and sound. In envisioning the existence of a vibratory, experiential and amorphous environment, Hart alludes to ideas relating to future primitivism, recovery, healing, romanticism and utopias all at once and ever changing across time and space.
Influenced by the writings of Fred Moten, Alvin Toffler, Saul Williams and the plasticity and dexterity of rap, poetry and spoken word, Hart’s work effects a flexion and torsion of the language – of sound, of painting, of space. Using an artistic process akin to the bricolage-like character of ‘DJ technologies’, Hart builds on his interest in sonification, ambiance and atmospheric and presents a sonic argument for the poetics of cross-modality and ultimately the potential for newness.
The exhibition is available 11 March – 15 May 2021 to see via the gallery’s viewing room
Image: Andrew Pierre Hart, Ladosian Crew-sing, 2021, oil on canvas, 200 x 115 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary.
