Hope 1930
In the complexity of his artistic means - painting, drawing, collage, installation, sculpture, video, book, object - Andy Hope subverts categorizations of form and content in 1930. Hope develops a complex iconography, designs fictional worlds that move between the ruins of history and fantastic visions of the future, and creates, as he himself describes, a "labyrinthine infinity." His references include the history of modernism, especially Suprematism, the astrophysics and philosophy of the time, and popular cultural sources, including classic Hollywood cinema of the 1930s, B-movies, and the entire science fiction genre in comics and film. For Nymphenburg, Andy Hope developed the character of Robin Dostoyevsky in 1930 as a youthful hero, oscillating between man and woman, hero and assistant, good and evil.