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Hany Armanious

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Hany Armanious
Hany Armanious in his Sydney studio, 2013
Born1962
Ismailia, Egypt
EducationBachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) degree, City Art Institute, Sydney.
Known forInstallations, sculpture and painting

Hany Armanious (born 1962) is an Egyptian born, Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney.[1] Armanious produces installations and sculptural forms, as well as paintings and drawings.

Life and work

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Hany Armanious was born in Ismailia, Egypt and migrated to Australia with his family at the age of 6.[2] He completed his schooling in Australia and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) degree from the City Art Institute, Sydney[3] and a doctorate in Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong.[4]) Since 2019 he has been Head of Sculpture at the National Art School in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.[5] In the early nineties Armanious considered a ‘key figure’ in a number of artists who critics noted as being influenced by the grunge movement.[6] Although born in Egypt and conscious of its cultural ties Armanious’s work does not specifically reference that culture.[7] He has been described as an artist who can 're-describe objects' using ‘poor materials’.[8] As his practice has developed Armanious has achieved this goal through making moulds of ordinary objects and replicating them as parts of completed works. As Armonious has himself said, ‘…my interest in casting partly grew from a technique in my painting that utilized contact prints. Casting is like three-dimensional printmaking.“[9] Casting has now become central; to Armanious’s work and a ‘key strategy’ that allows him to bring almost any object that catches his eye into the studio and via casting to the exhibition space ‘refiguring elements and processes both literally and metaphorically’.[10] In constructing and assembling his cast sculptures Armanious infuses and even ‘exploits’ the humorous potential brought to play on his work through the human need to find meaning within complicated and even abstract forms - the isomorphic condition that prompts us to find images and meaning in inkblots, clouds and other abstract combinations.[11] The success of this idea can be seen in Australian art critic Rex Butler's descriptions of three plastic shopping bags Armanious presented as the work Ladybug (Pornament) in 1993. Butler looks at the work and questions whether they resemble a green skirt and white blazer, inverted pantyhose, or perhaps ‘a man crucified head down and arms wide like St. Peter’.[12]

Exhibitions

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Armanious has shown with a number of dealer galleries and currently exhibits with Michael Lett in Auckland, Fine Arts, Sydney and Southard Reid in London. He has also shown with Foxy Production in New York, Sarah Cottier Gallery and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney, Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples and the Galerie Allen in Paris.

Selected exhibitions in public art institutions:

  • The Readymade Boomerang; Certain Relations in 20th-century Art (group) 8th Biennale of Sydney. 1990 Artistic Director René Block focussed on Duchamp and the power of the readymade on 20th century art.[13]
  • The Boundary Rider 9th Biennale of Sydney (group). 1992 Artistic Director: Anthony Bond.[13]
  • Aussemblage (group) Auckland City Gallery, New Zealand.[15] 1994
  • Möet and Chandon Touring Art (group) Prize National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. 1998 Touring all state galleries. Armanious was the 1998 Fellow.[17] Armanious was also included in the 2000 edition of the Möet et Chandon Fellows Exhibition at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
  • National Sculpture Prize 2005 (group) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.[21] 2005
  • Hany Armanious: Artists Project Auckland Art Gallery.[22] 2005
  • Hany Armanious: Morphic Resonance[25] City Gallery, Wellington[26] and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 2007. The exhibition title comes from biologist Rupert Sheldrake’s theory around the ‘unseen interconnectedness of things’.[27]
  • Before and After Science Adelaide Biennale. 2010 (group) Curated by Charlotte Day and Sarah Tutton, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.[29]
  • The Golden Thread (2011) at The fifty- fourth Venice Biennale. 2011 Armanious was the Australian representative at the 54th Biennale his work examining, ‘the relationship between the readymade and figurative sculptural traditions’.[30]
  • Hany Armanious’s Fountain Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney. 2013 Armanious’s installation was the Inaugural Museum of Contemporary Art Sculpture the first in a series of commissions on the MCA’s new Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace. The sculpture was based on an anatomical model of the inner ear.[32]
  • Future Eaters (group) MUMA (Monash University Museum of Art), Melbourne.[33] 2017

Note

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For a full list of Hany Armanious exhibitions go here

Collections

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Awards

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1998 Moët et Chandon fellowship

2004 Artist in residence, Elam School of Fine Arts International Arts Residency Programme, Auckland.[35]

References

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  1. ^ "Armanious, Hany - OzArts". Archived from the original on 13 September 2009. Retrieved 26 August 2009.
  2. ^ "Hany Armanious". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Hany Armanious". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  4. ^ Armanious, Hany. "From Nothing – Mimetic Seeing and Making". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Hany Armanious Appointed to Head of Sculpture". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  6. ^ Bullock, Natasha; Museum of Contemporary Art, eds. (2016). MCA collection handbook. The Rocks, Sydney, Australia: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. ISBN 978-1-921034-84-8.
  7. ^ Fahd, Cherine (2019). "Contemporary Australian Artists from the Middle Eastern Diaspora". Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies. 6 (1).
  8. ^ "SBS STVDIO documentary: Hany Armanious – The Golden Thread". 7 June 2011. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  9. ^ Krischer, Olivier Plundering (May 2011). "The Uncanny Valley: Hany Armanious". ArtAsiaPacific (73): 120–129.
  10. ^ Markou, Jason (2005). Turns in Arabba: Hany Armanious. Michael Lett Publishing.
  11. ^ Butler, Rex (2000). "Hany Armanious: The Gift of Sight". Art & Text (68): 66–70.
  12. ^ MacAloon, William (1999). Home and away: contemporary Australian and New Zealand art from the Chartwell Collection. Exhibition Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Chartwell Collection. Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki [u.a.] p. 102. ISBN 978-1-86953-427-1.
  13. ^ a b "Biennale of Sydney". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  14. ^ "Wits End". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  15. ^ "Aussemblage: Everyday Objects Transformed" (PDF). Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  16. ^ "Johannesburg Biennale". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  17. ^ "Exhibitions". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  18. ^ "Hammer Projects: Hany Armanious". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  19. ^ "Exhibitions: Fieldwork". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  20. ^ "Bloom, Toxicity and the Sublime" (PDF). Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  21. ^ "Exhibitions 2005: National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  22. ^ "Hany Armanious: Artist Project". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  23. ^ "Before the Body Matter: Works from the Monash University Collection with Selected Loans". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  24. ^ "Busan Biennale". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  25. ^ Armanious, Hany; Galbraith, Heather; Leonard, Robert (2007). Morphic resonance: Hany Armanious. Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, Qld.), City Gallery Wellington. Fortitude Valley, Qld. : Wellington: Institute of Modern Art ; City Gallery Wellington. ISBN 978-1-875792-60-3.
  26. ^ "Hany Armanious: Morphic Resonance". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  27. ^ "Hany Armanious: Morphic Resonance". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  28. ^ "Hany Armanious". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  29. ^ "Adelaide Biennale: Australian art and After Science". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  30. ^ "Hany Armanious: The Golden Thread". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  31. ^ "Mutatis Mutandis". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  32. ^ "Fons et Origo, or, Trompe l'Oreille Fountain: Hany Armanious". Art Monthly Australasia (262): 27–29. August 2013.
  33. ^ "Future Eaters". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  34. ^ Goodpasture, Eliza (15 July 2024). "A load of rubbish … or a whole new reality? Hany Armanious on his 'redemptive' replicas show". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  35. ^ "Elam International Artist in Residence programme". Retrieved 18 July 2024.

Further reading

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