Pat Andrea

PAT ANDREA (The Hague, The Netherlands, 1942).
Untitled, 1992, from the series "Olympic Suite".
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper, 270 grams, copy 109/250.
Signed and justified by hand.
Measurements: 63 x 90 cm.

The Olympic Suite is composed of fifty lithographs and serigraphs chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. It was published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism. The chosen artists work in very diverse movements and styles, from the hyperrealism of Antonio López to the abstraction of Sol Lewitt, passing through abstract expressionism, the geometrism of Arden Quin, conceptual art, pop art, the new realism of Baldaccini and Rotella, or the new fauvism of Dokoupil, among others. Among the artists represented there are creators of great international renown, widely recognized by critics.
The son of a plastic artist and an illustrator, Pat Andrea studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. Together with the artists Walter Nobbe and Peter Blokhuis, he formed the ABN group, which would become known as the New Hague School. In 1976, after his first exhibition in Paris, he traveled to Latin America, a place that notably changed his way of working, beginning to develop the figurative compositions that we know, of greater strength and formal tension than his previous works. In 1977 Jean Clair invited him to participate in the exhibition entitled "New Subjectivity", which took place at the Autumn Festival in Paris. From then on he would be known as a representative of this artistic current that draws from the new figuration, the second German expressionism or surrealism. Pat develops a work in which he captures the horrors and phobias of the war between the male and female sex, starring characters who have lost their psychological balance and are torn between tenderness and violence, all through a grotesque expressionism in which synthesized forms and flat colors prevail. Between 1983 and 1989 he combines his stays in Buenos Aires with periods in Europe, specifically in the cities of The Hague and Paris. During the 90's he exhibited at the Balducci-Daverio Gallery in New York, and in 1998 he was appointed professor at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, where he has lived with his family ever since.