18/09/2017
Athanasios Argianas 💙
ANTIDORON
The EMST Collection presents a selection of the EMST’s permanent collection in the Fridericianum, the birthplace of documenta and the first public museum in Europe. It negotiates concepts such as sharing, offering Antidoron (αντίδωρον, literally the return of a gift) or Antidanion (αντιδάνειo, the return of a loan either linguistic, cultural, or nancial). The prefix “anti” reveals a distinct position and consequently a view, not necessarily opposed to, but departing from a different point in order to communicate, to argue, to bridge, to converge, and to accept each others’ stances.
Athanasios Argianas: *The Length of a Strand of Your Hair, of the Width of Your Arms, Unfolded* (2010)
Work includes:
Unstable Objects 3 and 4
Copper-plated brass, nickel-plated aluminum, brass, bolts, and copper-plated pewter
Approx. 40 × 30 × 40 cm each
Paper through Wood, Wood through Paper Nos. 1–3
Ammonium hydrosulphite on silver leaf, verdigris copper, tree branch, paper, and neodymium magnets
Approx. 50 × 40 × 40 cm
Variable Dimensions Lecture (Contraction—Expansion)
Two-channel video projection, black-and-white, sound
60 min. (looped)
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), realized in the framework of the series EMST Commissions 2010 with the support of Bombay Sapphire gin
Photos: Nils Klinger
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