Athanasios Argianas - Laid Long, Spun Thin - Max Wigram Gallery - London

through November 12th 2011

A sheet of the width of the wingspan of a plane, a plane of strands of the width of your arms unfolded, folded to form a cylinder. A sheet shaped into a cylinder with an inside, and an outside. An outside as long as its inside, an inside much shorter that its outside… Athanasios Argianas

Athanasios Argianas presents Laid Long, Spun Thin, an elaborate extension of his Song Machine series. His sculptural manifestations of language, duration and materiality continue to play on the legacies of arte povera, Art Nouveau and minimalism.

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