Haris Metaxa Creative Queer Deconstruction Services (HM CQD), (c)Thought in Action Productions: Andrea Heyer, The New Hippies with Flower Love Renewed Visions coming from Wien

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.