We are pleased to announce representation of Australian sculptor, Basil Papoutsidis.
Basil Papoutsidis (b. Melbourne) is a sculptor whose work explores the context of formalist abstraction, alongside the utility of construction specific material. The fabrication of metals is of particular interest within Papoutsidis’ work, where forms are broken and repositioned, fused to bond an absence that identifies the partial industrial object.
Papoutsidis’ practice explores the aesthetic course of material behaviour through deconstruction, utilising the post-painterly idea of object as subject matter. Papoutsidis completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Art) at The Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 2014. He has exhibited in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Tokyo, and holds work in public and private collections.
In the conversation below, we discuss with Papoutsidis his engagement with metal, and how movement, design and abstraction converges in his practice.