The Pedantic Inventor 1 by Andrew Hart

THE PEDANTIC INVENTOR 1.

ANDREW HART, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTIST, ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART (2019) /

CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART (2017).

Tutor: you’re a Pedantic inventorMe: How am I supposed to take thatTutor: It is meant in a positive way.

My paintings of the Karo a Nilotic pastoralist Tribe of Ethiopia were part of a way of thinking and a translation of ideas around music; thinking of the adornments and accoutrements of flora , fauna and found objects; the rhythmic and spatial configurations in relation to creating such beautiful daily visual and sonorous compositions on the body or face of the Karo tribe were the site for an exchange of sound/colour, rhythm/gesture composition/mark-making take place.

All works oil on canvas- 30 x 40cm-2017- 2018 (NFS for educational purposes only)

L to R: Juan Atkins Whiz Khalifa Derrick May Future

The Tribes use of rudimentary actions in this daily process of Cultural Symbolism, for me is painting but over and above that the finished expression is now a Graphic score a visual notion or translation for a song or markers for rhythmic patterns. The body and face contains: through my ideas on music/rhythm and sound are new ways (that are built on a ritual that has no time date but is at least 100’s of years old and could be thousands of years old) to create new models or ideas on non-rules in music.

Tribe Ritual Mark Rhythm Pattern Composition Song Beats Graphic Score