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Zafos Xagoraris lives and works in Athens, Greece.
He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, the National Technical University of Athens and at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His Ph.D. is on the construction of miracles by Hero of Alexandria. Currently he is a Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
His work is consisted mainly of installations, mechanisms and drawings, directly related to the urban environment. After 1989, when he presented an installation next to Charles River in Boston, he has created a series of public artworks. He has also presented 6 solo and a series of group exhibitions and since 1998 is a member of the Urban Void group, performing everyday actions in the city.
During the last three years his work was related to the concept of range, when isolated sources (a bow, a foghorn, a bell etc.) and the limitation of their capacity, define a space.
In 2002, he presented two public installations at Metsovo, Greece and Langenlois, Austria and in 2003; he started the construction of a permanent public artwork at Kallithea station in Athens. He also realized the first of a series of movable sound installations in abandoned villages and neighbourhoods at Cyprus (2003-5), and with the collaboration of the Museum of Contemporary Art, he created a public art project at 3 different venues in Athens.
In 2004, he presented public artworks at the Art Lot in Brooklyn, NY, at the European Patent Office in Munich and at Modena during the Going Public 04. He also participated in the project in progress L’Autre Ville, which will be realized at Nicosia and Lyon. He was the co-curator of the collaborative project in progress ‘Paradigmata’( Greek participation at the 9th Biennale of architecture in Venice, Benaki Museum, Athens). Recently he took part in the Sao Paulo Biennial 2007.




Movable sound installations in abandoned villages
and neighborhoods in Cyprus (2003-5)



Augustine’s Dream 1, (based on Regnard’s photographs of Charcot’s patients), 75 cm x 75 cm, mixed media on paper,
2000 – 2002


Inner Bell, mechanism, 50 cm x 30 cm x 30 cm, 2000 – 2002

 



Building – silencer, mixed media on paper, 105 cm x 85 cm,
200 - 2002

 

 

 

 



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