Athanasios Argianas

Athanasios Argianas (born 1976) is a Greek and British artist living and working in London, England. Argianas' practice is interdisciplinary; incorporating sculpture, painting, text, performance and often music or sound, and concerns itself with metaphorical or translated representations of aural experiences. He received his MA from Goldsmiths College, London and previously studied under Jannis Kounellis at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Life and Works

Athanasios Argianas was born in 1976 in Athens, Greece. In addition to his fine arts education and practice, Argianas is a conservatory trained musician and releases music under the moniker Gavouna.[1] In his work, Argianas has been known to reference electronic instruments from the early 20th century, such as the theremin and the ondes martenot, experimental music and compositional methods from the 1960s, concrete poetry, the Constructivism of Naum Gabo, and even Marcel Duchamp’s Machine Optique (1920) and its circular deployment of language.

Argianas' work explores the contingency of sounds and forms and the possibility of new or different understanding arising through the translation between aural and material experiences. He oscillates between employing standardized systems for converting sound to object in some works and allowing for more intuitive translation in others. "Argianas makes objects that can be used for performances that in turn produce data which to define the shape of future objects."[2] His work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, The Serpentine Gallery, London and a participation in Performa 13 in New York.

Notable Solo Exhibitions[3]

Notable Group Exhibitions[3]

References

  1. ↑ Thorne, Sam. "Athanasios Argianas." Frieze Nov. 2008: n. pag. Web. 21 Aug. 2014..
  2. ↑ Faucheret, Anne, "The Promise of Total Automation", Press Text, Kunsthalle Wien, 2016
  3. 1 2 "Aanant & Zoo". Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  4. ↑ http://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/22240/athanasios-argianas
  5. ↑ "Athanasios Argianas". Trigésima Bienal de São Paulo. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Art Now Live 2011 - Tate". Retrieved 17 January 2015.
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