Armanious examines the premise of building from the ground up, a tenet paramount to sculpture, architecture, and human anatomy.

Exhibition Dates: 7 April – 30 April 2016

Hany Armanious’ work is filled with riddles and anomalies that inspire the viewer to question the ground on which they stand. Armanious meticulously reproduces everyday objects transforming them into bewildering constructions. This current show focuses on a body of work made between 2007 and 2012. The themes investigated are elevations, legs, footings, impressions, and depressions; essentially anything that engages how we connect to the earth. Armanious examines the premise of building from the ground up, a tenet paramount to sculpture, architecture, and human anatomy.

Two works central to this exhibition are Dew Point and Sandy Purifies and both typify the theme of connection with the ground. Sandy Purifies unites the remnants of two installations that were in underground storage in New York at the time of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Presented are the remaining pieces that survived the flood.

Dew Point is a pewter cast vintage film projector on a make shift table, directed at a cast thirty litre water bottle. The title Dew Point refers to the point at which ether transmutes to liquid and speaks of the universal balance between states. This work is particularly poignant to Armanious. When it was last shown in London, art and reality collided. While Armanious was suddenly hospitalized and facing the possibility of a leg amputation, the support under the table of Dew Point unexpectedly failed, sending the contents of the artwork crashing to the floor.

The seductive feature of Armanious’ practice is that he constantly draws our attention to the act of looking and perceiving, insisting on a level of intimacy with the work, which demands the viewer, acknowledge one’s complicities in the artificial construction of realities.

—Kate Alstergren

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Hany Armanious Mystery of the Plinth, 2010; Polystyrene, cast pigmented polyurethane resin, epoxy, silicone.

; 245 x 235 x 110 cm; enquire
Mystery of the Plinth, 2010
Polystyrene, cast pigmented polyurethane resin, epoxy, silicone.
245 x 235 x 110 cm
Hany Armanious Limerick, 2012; cast pigmented polyurethane foam and resin; 191 x 50.5 x 50.5 cm; enquire
Limerick, 2012
cast pigmented polyurethane foam and resin
191 x 50.5 x 50.5 cm
Hany Armanious Sandy Purifies 2007/2008 (Purified in 2012), 2015; expanding foam silicone, glass, paper, cardboard; variable; enquire
Sandy Purifies 2007/2008 (Purified in 2012), 2015
expanding foam silicone, glass, paper, cardboard
variable
Hany Armanious Birth of Venus, 2010; cast pigmented polyurethane resin; 11 x 122 x 125 cm; Installation; enquire
Birth of Venus, 2010
cast pigmented polyurethane resin
11 x 122 x 125 cm; Installation
Hany Armanious Dew Point, 2012; cast pigmented polyurethane resin and pewter; 66 x 150 x 79.5 cm; enquire
Dew Point, 2012
cast pigmented polyurethane resin and pewter
66 x 150 x 79.5 cm
Hany Armanious Temple, 2009; cast pigmented polyurethane resin; 67 x 51 x 51 cm; enquire
Temple, 2009
cast pigmented polyurethane resin
67 x 51 x 51 cm
Hany Armanious African Witch Doctor, 2011; cast pigmented polyurethane resin
190 x 40 x 40cm; 190 x 40 x 40 cm; & 31 x 53 x 38cm (2 parts); enquire
African Witch Doctor, 2011
cast pigmented polyurethane resin 190 x 40 x 40cm
190 x 40 x 40 cm; & 31 x 53 x 38cm (2 parts)
Hany Armanious Ventriloquist in an echo, 2012; cast pigmented polyurethane resin; 94.5 x 96.5 x 75 cm; enquire
Ventriloquist in an echo, 2012
cast pigmented polyurethane resin
94.5 x 96.5 x 75 cm
Hany Armanious Truffles, 2007; polyurethane, earth; Dimensions variable; enquire
Truffles, 2007
polyurethane, earth
Dimensions variable
Hany Armanious Literature review (pool cues from 'Year of the Pig Sty'), 2007; epoxy, pigment; 161 x 90 x 3.5 cm; enquire
Literature review (pool cues from 'Year of the Pig Sty'), 2007
epoxy, pigment
161 x 90 x 3.5 cm
Hany Armanious Literature review (pool cues from 'Year of the Pig Sty'), 2007; epoxy, pigment; 161 x 90 x 3.5 cm; enquire
Literature review (pool cues from 'Year of the Pig Sty'), 2007
epoxy, pigment
161 x 90 x 3.5 cm
Hany Armanious Comfort and contempt, 2011; pigment polyurethane resin, porcelain, Hermes scarf; 178 x 88 x 65 cm; enquire
Comfort and contempt, 2011
pigment polyurethane resin, porcelain, Hermes scarf
178 x 88 x 65 cm
Hany Armanious Comfort and contempt detail, 2011; pigment polyurethane resin, porcelain, Hermes scarf; 178 x 88 x 65 cm; enquire
Comfort and contempt detail, 2011
pigment polyurethane resin, porcelain, Hermes scarf
178 x 88 x 65 cm