Athanasios Argianas

Athanasios Argianas’ practice spans diverse media and formats and looks at a wide range of cultural references. His works are centered around questions on music, language, non-linear time and memory and a core concern about how we process and record information. Characterized by series and re-workings, Argianas’ practice builds on a methodology of continuous translation of forms and media into one another: how can a sculpture become a song? How can date and time form an image? A conservatory-trained musician, Argianas has written a number of vocal canons, or rounds – typically a short single melody sung by several voices, each of which begins at a different time. Many of Argianas’ works on paper also return to systems based on a formal and conceptual circularity: examples of this are  rings of crabs, Möbius strips in ‘Partly Obscured Portraits’ from 2008 and assiduous studies of tight coils in the ‘Braid Series’ from 2006–7.

Athanasios Argianas was born in Athens in 1976. After studying at the school of fine art in Thessaloniki, Greece, he continued his studies in Dusseldorf with professor Jiannis Kounelis for one year and completed his MA at Goldsmiths College, London in 2005.
Argianas has had solo exhibitions at Max Wigram Gallery (London); The Breeder ( Athens); EMST (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece); La Chambre, Xippas, (Paris), Faye Flemming & Partner (Geneva) and two person-shows at Arcade Fine Arts; (London) and The Serpentine Gallery Pavillion (London) where he also presented Manifesto Of Nondurational Time at the 2008 Manifesto Marathon curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. He was selected by Diana Baldon to participate in’Heaven’ the 2nd Athens Biennial (Athens) and was shortlisted for the 2009 Deste Prize. His work has been shown in public institutions including Arnolfini (Bristol); DCA Dundee Contemporary Arts (Dundee); Kunsthalle Wien Project Space (Vienna); Eastside Projects (Birmingham) and La Galerie, Noisy-Le-Sec (Paris).

He lives and works in London.

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