My 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 sound physics. 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. A perceptual and serialised approach with conceptual and systematic underpinnings.
My art embraces optimism, In a society devoid of optimism dysfunctionality becomes the default setting, aesthetics encoded with optimism embodies social change.
- John Aslanidis 2022
Selected Recent Solo Exhibitions
2023
Sonic Network No. 19, Gallery 9, Sydney
2022
Sonic Network No. 20, Lennox St. Gallery, Melbourne
2021
Sonic network no.17 Revisited, Gallery 9, Sydney
2020
Intersection, collaboration with Mayonaize, West Side Place Artcade, Melbourne
2018
Sonic no.68, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2017
Sonic Network no.17, Gallery 9, Sydney
2016
Sonic Series 2005-2011, curated by Jane O’Neill Australian Consul General, New York
Sonic New Wave, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York
Sonic Network no.15, Galerie Kai Hilgemann @ Prosecco, Berlin
2015
Selection of works from the 1990s, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Intersection, collaboration with Mayonaize, Juddy Roller, Melbourne
Sonic Network no.14, Gallery 9, Sydney
2014
Sonic Network no.15, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2013
Sonic Network, Kai Hilgemann Gallery, Berlin
Sonic Network no.13, collaboration with Brian May, Gallery 9, Sydney
2012
Sonic Fragments, Ethan Cohan Fine Arts, Beacon USA Sonic Network no.8, collaboration with Brian May, Substation, Melbourne
Sonic Network no.9, collaboration with Brian May, White Box, New York
2011
Sonic Network no.9, collaboration with Brian May, dr Julius | ap, Berlin
1993 - 2010: regular solo exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, New York, Berlin.
Selected Recent Group Shows
2019
Group Show, Gallery 9, Sydney
Circulation, Blue Rider Art, Taipei Taiwan
2018
New Optics 3, Museum of Modern Art Hunfeld Germany Talent Show, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts New York
Patterns of the invisible Hilgemann Projects Berlin
2017
New Optics Galerie Husam Offenbach Germany
As of Now Ethan Cohen Fine Arts New York
2016
How to Picture Living Systems KLI institute Klosterneuberg Austria
Visions of Utopia curated by Andrew Christofides Woollongong Art Gallery
Interference Nurture art New York
WAR a Playground perspective The Armoury
2015
Eyes score: The Audible image Town Hall Galley Hawthorn Arts Centre
After 65 The Legacy of OP Latrobe Regional Gallery
2014
Colour/Music Drill Hall Gallery Australian National University
2013
Melbourne Now National Gallery of Victoria Light Space Projects, Gallery H Bangkok, Thailand ABSTRACTIONS, Galerie Kai Higemann Berlin Germany The Sharper edge, Ethan Cohan Fine Arts New York
2012
Finding our New Fort Kunsthalle Beacon NY USA Future Shock One-Two Internationale Neue Konkrete +dr. Julius | ap Berlin
Structure and Emergence, Lafayette College Easton Pennsylvania, MDC Freedom Tower Gallery Miami Florida, University Gallery school of Fine Arts Gainesville Florida
2011
Sound and Vision McKenzie Fine Art New York USA Sounds Good Location One New York USA
Together in Harmony Korean Cultural Foundation Seoul
1993 - 2010: regular inclusion in curated contemporary art exhibitions Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Moscow, Berlin, New York, etc
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