Hany Armanious guides us through a landscape of process and form, mining its interior. The nature of reality exhumed there does not always reassure the big brain-like organ that we pick through in search of ideas. The inside is a mess of abstraction.
Exhibition Dates: 1 June – 3 July 2006
Hany Armanious guides us through a landscape of process and form, mining its interior. The nature of reality exhumed there does not always reassure the big brain-like organ that we pick through in search of ideas. The inside is a mess of abstraction. Everything, upon close inspection, in that transition between scales, is a scene of menace or tender beauty to digest. We are cast between nourishment and waste. Laptop, bubble jet, electricity etc. (the hard-won trophies of home office design) let us cure the difference between figuration, façade and their others. Calculate and communicate the modular membranes, the material epiphanies that enfold us toward an understanding of the outward principles of good design and the inner workings of nature.
—Amanda Rowell
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In October 2006, the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane is presenting a major exhibition of Hany Armanious' work (curated by Robert Leonard). It will be the first historical survey. The exhibition will tour to City Gallery Wellington in in 2007. A substantial catalogue is being produced to accompany the exhibition. Also in 2006, Armanious has been included in the Busan Biennale in , an international group exhibition Uncanny Nature at ACCA in Melbourne and Adventures with form in space, the Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 2001 Armanious had a solo exhibition at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. He won the Moet and Chandon Fellowship in 1998 with a sculptural group that consisted of a series of upturned wine glasses and coloured hotmelt casts and was shortlisted for Contempora 5 in 1997. Armanious exhibited in the 1995 Johannesburg Biennale (curated by Kendall Geers), the 1992 Biennale of Sydney (curated by Tony Bond). In 1993 he was selected for the prestigious Aperto section of the Venice Biennale (curated by Achille Bonito Oliva). Intelligent Design is Hany Armanious' third solo exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Group Show, Caught Stealing
National Art School, Sydney, 2019
Group Show, The Like Button
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2018-19
Hany Armanious
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2018
Group Show, State of Play
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2017
Group Show, Future Eaters
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2017
Hany Armanious Cavities, Platforms, Footings: Selected Work 2007 - 2012
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2016
Hany Armanious
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2015
Hany Armanious we go out inside
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2013
Hany Armanious Fountain
Museum of Contemporary Art Sculpture Terrace Commission, Sydney, 2012
Hany Armanious The Golden Thread
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2012
Hany Armanious The Golden Thread
54th Venice Biennale, 2011
Hany Armanious Lines of Communication
Vodaphone Hutchison Australia, Sydney, 2010
Hany Armanious Uncanny Valley
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2009
Group Show, Lucky Town
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2008-09
Hany Armanious The Oracle
Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, 2008
Group Show, Summer '07 '08
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2007
Group Show, STOLEN RITUAL
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2006-07
Hany Armanious Intelligent Design
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2006
Hany Armanious National Sculpture Prize
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2005
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2005
Hany Armanious The Cult
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2004
Hany Armanious Art Nouveau Barbeque
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2003
Hany Armanious Selflok
Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2001