BIO
Argiris Rallias (b. 1993) is a contemporary visual artist / sculptor based in Greece and Italy. Works of him have been exhibited at Musei Civici Varese in Italy, Benaki Museum, Athens Conservatoire, TISE-StonExpo 2023 in Las Vegas. He has also participated as a performer at Onassis Cultural Center, Athens as well as numerous art exhibitions and sculpture residencies.
Graduate of School of Fine Arts Panormos, Tinos (2011-2014), Athens School of Fine Arts (2014 – 2019) and Accademia di Belle Arte in Carrara, Italy (2021- 2023). Always keeping sculpture as his starting point, his creativity expands from activism in public space and educational art programs to projects ranging from installations to performances.
Artist statement
Through
my work I research areas of the enigmatic, the mysterious, the mythological.
In
particular, I am interested in the cultural burden conveyed through myths and especially their inherent contradiction, the core of the truth hidden within their universally accepted lie.
The
storyteller-mythologist has a specific status and role in the weaving of the social fabric of every Greek community and specifically in the Cycladic society where I grew up. My interest in the role of the storyteller was also what triggered my involvement with art.
Personal
work functions as a tool for capturing the boundary between truth and fiction. Borrowing typological elements from the structure of the myth and using the mechanism of "transfer", recognizable everyday objects are reduced to mythological and worship objects. Trasfers of a huge monolithic iPhone, an acrobat in a pink dress, a Trojan cow as a Trojan horse.
Man
is often absent as a form in my work, but states his presence through the relationships he creates within the community. Plasticity and the dynamics of these collective relations are of my basic concerns.
Constantly
experimenting with new techniques and materials, I mainly work with materials such as marble, wood and metal, developing both sculptural installations and constructions,
EDUCATION
MA Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, Italy (2021-2023)
B.A./INT. MA Athens School of Fine Arts (2014-2019)
Preparatory and Professional School of Fine Arts in Panormos, Tinos (2011-2014)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS - WORKSHOPS
June 2023:GIOCO DI GUERRA" carrara, italy (personal exhibition).
April 2023: Leftovers ciò che resta, salla veratti, musei civici Varese Italy (exhibition).
February 2023: Chosen to represent greece and the fine arts school of Tinos, Greece in the TISE-StonExpo 2023 in Las Vegas, Live performance: what remains.
October 2019: Soul anatomies, gallery Hart and Gart (exhibition).
June 2019: I AM PHONE, ASFA (Graduation degree show).
May 2019: Sound map. Sound escapes of trauma.Athens, Conservatoire (exhibition).
May 2019: Prosopeio kai Vlemma,Contemporary Greek Art Institute (exb).
May 2018: Performer in Big Bang festival, Onassis Cultural Center Athens.
January 2018: Dismantling Devices , participation in Zafos Xagoraris workshop, Onassis Cultural Center Athens.
December 2017: Disappearance II, with the artists Omer Fast and Heike Schupellious, ASFA Library (workshop).
October 2017: Disappearance, with the artists Omer Fast and Heike Schupellious (University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe), in Hydra (workshop).
September 2017: Workshop in Geneva, a collaboration between ASFA and HEAD open college.
March 2016: Sculpture workshop at the School for deaf children in Argyroupolis, Athens.
May 2016:The roots are to grow into branches, Αnthropographes, Benaki Museum (exhibition).
June 2016: Rituals, a collaboration between ASFA and Zyrich School of Fine Arts, in Delphi,Greece.
June 2016: Before ritual’performance Circuits and Currents.
June 2016:Roots , National History Museum of Meteora (exhibition).
August 2014: Exhibition of graduates with excellence, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
February 2016: Logic with feet, design and organisation of a sculpture workshop in collaboration with the 6 High School in Chania, Crete.
April 2017: Design and organisation of a sculpture workshop in collaboration with the Primary School of Sikinos.
2020-2021: Art Teacher in 22 Primary School of Athens February 2022: Invited from Giannis Melanitis to design a 4 day sculpture workshop in Athens school of fine arts B’ sculpture lab (how to create an armature).
September 2022: Esercizi di luogo, Design and organisation of workshop in Hydra. Collaboration with Asfa (Katerina Athanasiou), Accademia di belle Arti di Carrara (Marco Schifo) and Faculdade de belas-artes da Universidade de Lisboa.
March 2023: Tutor in Αccademia di belle arti di Carrara, department of Sculpture
OTHER ACTS
August 2018: Creation of a collaborative studio with the artists Dimitris Skalkotos and Panayiotis Lambrou
June 2018: Assistant sculptor of the artist Kyriakos Rokos in the 1st Symposium in Metamorphosi,Attiki
January 2018: All there is ,by Jonathan Bailie, Scenography of he play, Beep Theatre
April 2017: The whistle,scenario - direction for short-film in collaboration with the Primary School of Sikinos
March 2017: Titanomachies, assistant director, National Theatre of Greece
July 2016: Volunteer restorer in the archaeological department of Kythnos with the professor in charge Alexandros Mazarakis - Ainian
AWARDS/NOMINATIONS
June 2012: Excellence award, 1st year of my sculpture studies June
2013: Excellence award, 2nd year of my sculpture studies
June 2014: Excellence award for the overall academic performance in the Preparatory and Professional School of Fine Arts
and scholarship for admission in Athens School of Fine Arts August
July 2021: "BRÜCKEN SCHLAGEN" sculpture titled "Seismografos" Hofheim, Germany
october 2022: erasmus bip scholarship in Hydra Greece
February 2023: Chosen to represent Greece and the fine arts school of Tinos, Greece in the TISE-StonExpo 2023 in Las Vegas where Greece won the first prize for the best and most impressive presence of the expo.
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