Athanasios Argianas, Consonants As Noise (foam consonants), 2013 (detail). Copper plated sea sponges and steel (Installation view at Aanant & Zoo, Berlin) Photo credit: Jan Brockhaus. COurtesy the artist and On Stellar Rays, NY
Athanasios Argianas
A Sequencer*
2 November – 15 December 2013
at On Stellar Rays, New York
Athanasios Argianas’s work occupies a space between mediums: sculptures become scripts for performances, or arrangements for songwriting, or vice versa. Although his works are often based on translations — or transcriptions — of aural, visual, or textual layers, the systems he creates are open and intuitive, stemming from a genuine curiosity for experimentation rather than a predetermined, result-oriented idea. Accordingly, this exhibition is conceived as a play on indeterminacy, contingency, and the attempt to let the work be shaped by situations beyond the artist’s control.
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