Augustus Veinoglou is an artist from Athens Greece. He studied sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art 2000-04.
He's been living in the city of Athens for the past two years using a flat as his studio in the centre of Athens, in the area called Kipseli (literally meaning 'Hive'). Kipseli is within the top 10 most densely populated areas of Europe.
Augustus has shown great interest in discovering the materials which constitute and characterize the neighborhood and the people that dwell within the confined space of city apartments.
He has been inspired by the "small removals and transfers" and other everyday street affairs. His sources of material come partly from the living rooms of the deceased, left belongings which are transferred down on the streets to get rid off.
Augustus's work is primarily based upon "the ephemeral world which gets built fast and hastily and often breaks and leaks". He is perhaps himself somewhere stuck within the remnants of an old-solid rocky "structure" which gets persistently "renovated" in a new-hastily built manner...
Although he could easily settle under these conditions and carry on his work in "narrow town", his "depot" on masking tape, Styrofoam and polyurethane, which are major insulators and fast repairers used extensively in the domestic and building constructions has given him the opportunity to create experimental works which now owe to travel across Europe in order to be installed in an ex-office building in ex - "Resort town", Scarborough, UK.
The Georgian building in 18 York Place still keeps fresh its memories of its previous occupiers. Used as an office building it certainly signifies the existence of an urban discourse by the selection of the materials used, colors, interior arrangements but also the way these have defined till our present times the Psycho - geography of the building as well as its emotional impression.
A site of narratives that originate from the "epidermis" of its interior but also from an inaugurated ambience will get somewhat married with relief and photographic representations that depict, captured psycho geographies and emotional ripostes from his experience in the cramped city of Athens.
The marriage between the decorative, relief, painting and photographic works and the interior disposition of the site of 18 York Place will bring life to a selected sector within the building, ultimately proposing a rejuvenated venture to its "voyeurs".
Augustus's works will have the propensity to convey elements of mending and curing, by the symbolic employment of materials: tapes and foam, which are used extensively in order to "restore", not human wounds, but "crevices" in the materials that surround us.
This will result in the vitalization of a performance which will incorporate the topics of "parasitism", and "mending", Augustus's work will be primarily based in an in-situ inquiry on 18 York Place.
He's been living in the city of Athens for the past two years using a flat as his studio in the centre of Athens, in the area called Kipseli (literally meaning 'Hive'). Kipseli is within the top 10 most densely populated areas of Europe.
Augustus has shown great interest in discovering the materials which constitute and characterize the neighborhood and the people that dwell within the confined space of city apartments.
He has been inspired by the "small removals and transfers" and other everyday street affairs. His sources of material come partly from the living rooms of the deceased, left belongings which are transferred down on the streets to get rid off.
Augustus's work is primarily based upon "the ephemeral world which gets built fast and hastily and often breaks and leaks". He is perhaps himself somewhere stuck within the remnants of an old-solid rocky "structure" which gets persistently "renovated" in a new-hastily built manner...
Although he could easily settle under these conditions and carry on his work in "narrow town", his "depot" on masking tape, Styrofoam and polyurethane, which are major insulators and fast repairers used extensively in the domestic and building constructions has given him the opportunity to create experimental works which now owe to travel across Europe in order to be installed in an ex-office building in ex - "Resort town", Scarborough, UK.
The Georgian building in 18 York Place still keeps fresh its memories of its previous occupiers. Used as an office building it certainly signifies the existence of an urban discourse by the selection of the materials used, colors, interior arrangements but also the way these have defined till our present times the Psycho - geography of the building as well as its emotional impression.
A site of narratives that originate from the "epidermis" of its interior but also from an inaugurated ambience will get somewhat married with relief and photographic representations that depict, captured psycho geographies and emotional ripostes from his experience in the cramped city of Athens.
The marriage between the decorative, relief, painting and photographic works and the interior disposition of the site of 18 York Place will bring life to a selected sector within the building, ultimately proposing a rejuvenated venture to its "voyeurs".
Augustus's works will have the propensity to convey elements of mending and curing, by the symbolic employment of materials: tapes and foam, which are used extensively in order to "restore", not human wounds, but "crevices" in the materials that surround us.
This will result in the vitalization of a performance which will incorporate the topics of "parasitism", and "mending", Augustus's work will be primarily based in an in-situ inquiry on 18 York Place.
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