The Australian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale will feature artist Hany Armanious’ exhibition entitled The Golden Thread. Armanious works in sculpture to bridge the aesthetic divide between fine art and ready made objects. He does this by casting found, discarded objects in polyurethane. He, then, multiply produces them to create new, unique forms. Regarding Armanoius’ work, curator Anne Ellegood says, ““By arguing that objects in our everyday life – leaf-blowers, vases, teapots, baskets, irons, window blinds, or even a car... Read more

The Australian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale will feature artist Hany Armanious’ exhibition entitled The Golden Thread. Armanious works in sculpture to bridge the aesthetic divide between fine art and ready made objects. He does this by casting found, discarded objects in polyurethane. He, then, multiply produces them to create new, unique forms.

Regarding Armanoius’ work, curator Anne Ellegood says, ““By arguing that objects in our everyday life – leaf-blowers, vases, teapots, baskets, irons, window blinds, or even a cardboard Burger King crown – can carry as much visual pleasure, as much potential for beauty, as those things designed or deemed to be in the domain of aesthetics, his work is an acknowledgment that there is more to this world than meets the eye.”