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THBCris Gianakos - The Bull Jumper with Equilateral Triangle and Golden Rectangle (Red)
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Cris Gianakos
The Bull Jumper with Equilateral Triangle and Golden Rectangle (Red)
1993
Serigraph 24 x 31.75 in (unframed)
30 x 38 in. (framed)
Edition 7/13
Courtesy of the artist
Original photo of Bull Jumper by Cris Gianakos in the Heraklion Museum, Crete, Greece, The Bull Jumper was a Minoan sculpture created in 1550 BC, discovered in the Temple of Knossos, Crete. Upon analysis of the proportions of this sculpture, the artist discovered that placing two images of it together head to toe would create a Golden Rectangle; by the magic of geometry, he saw also that he could place an equilateral triangle between them. The artist made a small edition of serigraphs of the total image, this is #7/13.
Cris Gianakos was born in New York City, raised in Crete, and grew up in the Cretan community of New York. His immigrant parents with a strong work ethic inspired a firm artistic discipline in him and his artist brother Steve. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts, where he has taught for 55 years, and had a successful graphic design career while starting to make art. He states that he is "mostly self-taught". In 1967 Gianakos bought a loft on Prince St and West Broadway with a group of artists. There he continued to make his resin works, which he showed at the Jewish Museum, the Whitney Museum, and in the Museum of Modern Art. In a transition in the mid-70s, Gianakos began to examine the idea of using a diagonal ramp form in his sculptural installations. He made a series of large- and small-scale structures of industrial materials, known as RAMPWORKS, with one of the first installations at Soho’s 55 Mercer. He exhibited them in group shows in New York, including a large survey exhibition at Nassau County Art Museum. Gianakos’ work is considered part of the post-Minimalist movement. A practice of drawing has continued throughout his career; his work moves freely between installations, sculpture, drawing, painting, and printmaking. Gianakos is represented in significant public collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; MOMus State Museum of Contemporary Art-Costakis Collection and MAM, Greece; Watkita Museum of Art, Tokyo; Max Bill Haus, Zurich, Switzerland; and the Brooklyn Museum. He continues to live and work in New York and Europe.
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