Hany Armanious had a residency at Elam School of Fine Arts earlier this year. Elam's sculpture department has a foundry, which gave the Egyptian-born Australian artist the opportunity to explore casting, one of his favourite procedures, in great depth. He made metal castings off utilitarian items of similar shape, including bells and peppergrinders. These subjects posed a problem for the process: how to deal with clappers and spindles? The resulting sculptures are part of his on-going inquiry into negative spaces and the paradoxes of describing them.

Hany Armanious at Auckland Art Gallery

Image: Hany Armanious - Arabba
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Cosmic CampgroundHany Armanious had a residency at Elam School of Fine Arts earlier this year. Elam's sculpture department has a foundry, which gave the Egyptian-born Australian artist the opportunity to explore casting, one of his favourite procedures, in great depth. He made metal castings off utilitarian items of similar shape, including bells and peppergrinders. These subjects posed a problem for the process: how to deal with clappers and spindles? The resulting sculptures are part of his on-going inquiry into negative spaces and the paradoxes of describing them.

Hany Armanious at Auckland Art Gallery

Image: Hany Armanious - Arabba
arcane occult artefacts

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