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Andrea Heyer, Hippie POP Artist Promising Happiness
(Paris,
September 2016)
A herd of
weird, queer looking animal sculptures suffering some sort of identity dysphoria,
black with white faces in different sizes but nothing definite about their
individual species.
Huge
canvases, 2 meters high filled with what looks like flat plastic flowers with
no stems, electric colours dancing around your eyes, you are off to a happy
hippie acid dream and no artificial drug is needed, you float around weightless
dreaming of an empty room to fill with this explosion of positive energy and
flowery vibes.
Then comes
a series of 15 medium sized black and white drawings on canvas, called
„Friends“ where with her seductive simplicity Andrea Heyer depicts the variety
and depth of feeling friends can inspire to us all. Because you can be rich or
poor, successful or a romantic failure, make no mistake, you need friends, you
need a private existence, you need intimacy to be fully human and the artist
makes her priority to tell you so.
Then she
declines a similar series in a smaller format called „Family“ and intersected
with blown up family pictures in glossy colour, all in a delicate celebration
and wonder of this basic link that makes us who we are, who shutters the myth
of floating, unconnected singularities and places us all in a genealogy of
people, of history and geography and in an emotional map too.
Andrea
Heyer concentrates on the intimate feelings that connect us to each other and
to the world, she strikes down isolation and solitude, invites human connection
and promises potential fun and happiness in a bright, flowery universe where
human and animal herds could live together in harmony.
She dreams
in multicoloured flowers in our grey world but remains vigilant to the greyness
lurking inside us too.
Come on
peoples, dream with Andrea, bring the hippie humans back, yes, revisited by our
fragmented postmodern sensitivities of course, but dare to dream and place your
faith and actions to utopia.
ANDREA HEYER'S SITE : http://andreaheyer.net/
