JOHN ASLANIDIS (b. 1961) has exhibited in Sydney, Melbourne, Berlin and New York for almost three decades.
In the Sonic Network series, I use a set of mathematical intervals, to compose the paintings, these are relative to a symmetrical grid on each of the four canvases.
This drawing that I use as a reference point to compose my paintings, is akin to an algorithm or “musical score”, Which allows me to improvise, when composing the paintings and arbitrarily choose any of the eight points on each canvas to create complex compositions which are underpinned by a structured approach, which appear at first glance to be random.The intention is to create imagery where there is no starting or finishing point, capturing a fragment of infinity.in this regard my work has a strong correlation with emergence theory, were complex patterns emerge out of simple interactions
This systematic and interdisciplinary approach has a strong correlation with music, mathematics and science.
The vibration created by the kinetic resonance of the sonic network series occupies a sensory dimension, which exists between sound and vision.
Conceptually, I am not trying to illustrate sound but, rather, give a visual expression to its physicality. my concern is with the physical reaction the viewer has to my paintings. There is an experience of an audible hum produced by looking at my works. This idea is closely related to the phenomenon of synaesthesia. A perceptual and serialized approach with conceptual and systematic underpinnings.adopting,an idiosyncratic approach,which challenges conventional doctrines and interpretations of art history.
I have explored this area further collaborating with sound artists formerly in a subcultural context as a member of the Clan Analogue a collective of sound and visual artists in the mid to late 1990s.
Later in the early 2000s my art was represented on Zonar recordings a Sydney/Melbourne based electronic music label.My paintings were represented on this label in the same context as the sound artists who were represented by the label.
In more recent times I have collaborated with a Berlin based sound artist Brian May, presenting the paintings in gallery spaces in the format of painting/sound installations.
Through arranging sounds produced by reading the oscillating and kaleidoscopic variations of colour and tone present within my painting ,May creates immersive soundscapes that directly relate to the colours, moiré patterns and composition, I have put down on the canvas.
The overall visual effect being one of a perpetual change. With the intention of disorientating the viewer and a creating a contemplative optimism. John Aslanidis 2021
Achievements in the last 5 years include an 84 sqm wall painting commissioned for Longchamp’s Omotesando boutique in Tokyo (2017), a six month residency at the prestigious ISCP International Studio Program in New York (2016), and a survey exhibition at the Australian Consulate-General of New York (2016). In 2016 Aslanidis also exhibited in Berlin, presenting his sixth collaboration with sound artist Brian May.
Aslanidis is represented in the collections of Artbank, The University of Sydney Art Collection, New England Regional Art Gallery, Westmead Children’s Hospital, Melbourne Arts Centre, Bendigo Regional Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art Allens Linklaters and numerous private and corporate collections in Australia, Europe and the USA.
