Andrew Pierre Hart: Bio-Data Flows and Other Rhythms: A Local Story

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The first publication on London-based artist Andrew Pierre Hart, published to accompany his major commission at Whitechapel Gallery. Featuring new writing by Allie Biswas and Gilane Tawadros, as well as a conversation between Hart and artist Larry Achiampong.

Both a visual artist and an electronic music producer, Andrew Pierre Hart has consistently explored the interrelationship between sound and painting. An illustrated essay by writer Allie Biswas discusses how Hart materialises these overlapping sensory qualities across recent exhibitions and artworks.

Curator and director Gilane Tawadros introduces Hart's new commission, which is grounded in Hart's research into the Whitechapel area and his conversations with those who live and work locally. Extensive illustrations document the resulting installation, which features colourful abstract and figurative paintings, a large-scale collaborative mural, a towering bamboo sculpture and video shot with three dancers in the streets surrounding the Gallery. Extended captions by curator Cameron Foote draw out how these imaginative artworks engage with Whitechapel's history of anti-racist activism.

A conversation between Hart and artist Larry Achiampong outlines synergies between their work and their shared experiences growing up in rapidly gentrifying parts of east and west London. Hart intervenes in the book with a playful and disruptive artist's section, fusing journal-like snapshots taken in Whitechapel, and on recent trips to Nigeria and Barbados, with concrete poems, reflections and annotations that reveal the motivations surrounding his artwork.

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Andrew Pierre Hart lives and works in London. He describes his work as focused on 'the symbiotic relationship between sound and painting', while also incorporating aspects of sculpture, mural-making, installation, language, performance and film. Hart spent the first part of his career as a DJ and musician running the record label Deepart, which specialised in electronic music and Detroit-style techno. Musical techniques such as improvisation, 'rhythmic research' and an interest in the way sound resonates in space now infuse his multidisciplinary art practice. Recent figurative paintings have drawn on Western art historical precedents while also representing real and mythic figures that relate to diasporic experiences in London. His abstract tapestry-like compositions draw on sources as diverse as the hand-painted murals of the Gurunsi people in Burkina Faso, Nigeria; Yoruba divination codes; graphic musical scores; and digital coding.