Argianas is presenting a body of new sculptural works conceived specifically for this project and collectively resonating in the exhibition spaces. Athanasios Argianas’s interdisciplinary practice encompasses sculpture, painting, text, performance and music. It is concerned with the physicality of sculpture versus the immateriality of performed lyrics, or language, making immaterial objects from material means and vice versa, and is often informed by his background, and parallel practice, in musical composition.
“An Ear of Arms (around you)” hints at an ear that listens in empathy, rather than sound, composed of arms—a hugging gesture, transforming to a communal ear. The exhibition takes shape in various new formats of works: from a tasseled outline of a wild Cichorium weed, cut in steel, to a 3d scan of a Pinna Nobilis—a creature currently facing extinction—and an architectural weave of a scanned Turtle shell, to text etched works that play with the limits of sculpture through layers of representation and reference. A solid brass ribbon is bent to pretend it is supple, soft, etched with text that again opens up another layer of space, that of spoken language, a virtual immaterial objecthood.
at Renata Fabbri, Milan
until November 16, 2022