Marios Fournaris

Marios Fournaris, Humanoid Perception, 2018, Digital collage / archival print on paper (edition of 5 + 2 a.p), 66 x 47 cm

Post-human’s image is the revelation of a hypothetical future existence that expands biological, moral and pragmatic facts of matter and spirit, as we know them at the present. This new existence as it propounds through a “labyrinth” of postindustrial elements is called to overcome all the commitments of hitherto known techno-natural environment. Entrance to "labyrinth" marks the turning to internal exploration of self, in a place that is inhabited by the fear of finite existence and the element of metaphysical unknown space. The “new man” is called to emerge from this context as a totally free being, which has been freed from the great narratives of past, his fears and prejudices, creating a new frame of self-development and evolution

Marios Fournaris

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Marios Fournaris was born in Piraeus in 1981. In 2010 he graduated from the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he worked on issues connected with space, sculptural form and three-dimensional installations. He continued his postgraduate studies (MFA) at University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD), in UK, exploring issues of public art and digital image processing. He has participated in many group and solo exhibitions, while his artworks are included in private collections in Greece and abroad, in the permanent collection of Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (MMST) and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Florina, West Macedonia.

Marios Fournaris’ artistic research includes a wide range of mediums and techniques, such as three dimensional installations, sculpture, drawings, photography and digital prints. His oeuvre is connected with matters and thoughts of contemporary art and concern various and different fields of knowledge, including natural sciences and humanitarian studies. His visual language interpret the artistic synthesis not merely as a figurative whole, but as a new form of conceptual idiom that interprets the world and gives the opportunity to viewers to associate the artwork with paradoxical and contradictory images full of symbolisms. The stigma and structure of his art work is possessed by the agonizing expression of ecumenical questions that are related to issues of individual existence and structural function of humanity.