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“I like to develop my work through shows rather than for them, one show feeding into another as my works are often responses to earlier works or continuations of them. The nature of my practice is such that works refer to each other making webs of references, or one piece may mutate into a series, or for example a song can procure a series of models / objects or the other way round etc.”
Athanasios Argianas
At THE BREEDER Projects, Athanasios Argianas presented an installation in two parts, the first part featuring Braid series 1, Il Pleut and Lyrical Machines. The Braid Series are gouaches of braid designs based on found imagery, depicting cyclical designs and arranged in a specific pattern. Il pleut functions as two dividing screens between the other works in the room and resembles a display structure / bookshelf. It is based on a Calligramme of the same title by Guillaume Apolinaire, where the direction of the words follows the course of raindrops. Copies of the poem, which is written in vertical verses, are cut in strips and hang in the frames of the sculpture. The Lyrical Machines are sculptures translating the structure of a Canon* written by Athanasios Argianas.
The second part of the installation, is entitled Music For Four Imagined Theremins and is centered on a short quartet for whistling. The Theremin was one of the first electronic musical instruments invented in the 1930s and carried utopian ideals about the future of music. It is controlled without physical contact, by the proximity of the performer’s hands to two sensors. The installation comprises of a sound piece audible on a turntable and a series of models relating to the sound piece that form an assemblage on a custom made display structure.
*Canon: a song written in a cyclical structure
