Aristotle Roufanis (b. 1983 Athens, Greece) is a London-based visual artist whose work focuses on patterns, textures and human interactions defined by the condition of urban life and architecture. Fascinated by how humans build the environments they live in, he has travelled the world extensively, creating images that combine meticulous digital editing with a very personal artistic vision.
A civil engineering graduate, Aristotle Roufanis has always been fascinated by architecture, and particularly the patterns and sheer scale of large cities. Interested in the many contrasts and the amount of information one can collect through reading an urban landscape, the artist has often turned his lens to urban architecture in the past. Alone Together combines several themes that have appeared in Aristotle Roufanis’s work so far, but merges them in a very skilful and refined way. Imagine the artist perched atop a hill or high-rise building at dawn waiting patiently for the city lights to go out in order to take a series of quick, precious clicks; it is as if he’s eavesdropping on our lives with his camera. What he gives back in return is the awareness that we are not as alone as we think, and that, in a sea of dark night, the nearest bright spot is much closer than we think.
A civil engineering graduate, Aristotle Roufanis has always been fascinated by architecture, and particularly the patterns and sheer scale of large cities. Interested in the many contrasts and the amount of information one can collect through reading an urban landscape, the artist has often turned his lens to urban architecture in the past. Alone Together combines several themes that have appeared in Aristotle Roufanis’s work so far, but merges them in a very skilful and refined way. Imagine the artist perched atop a hill or high-rise building at dawn waiting patiently for the city lights to go out in order to take a series of quick, precious clicks; it is as if he’s eavesdropping on our lives with his camera. What he gives back in return is the awareness that we are not as alone as we think, and that, in a sea of dark night, the nearest bright spot is much closer than we think.
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**** Review in NRC from Rianne van Dijck on soloshow Alone Together - Aristotle Roufanis
30 jan 2020
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Alone Together
The Exposure Project: I was elbowing my way through the crowds at AIPAID (the big photo fair in New York) when something way off to the right made my head snap around. I approached the sprawling photos of apartment complexes at night, and as I stared at them, a sense of loneliness, helplessness, and surrender filled my heart. The artist, Aristotle Roufanis, stood among the work and jovially explained to me that the project—which he’s titled “Alone Together”—came to him out of “the loneliness I felt when I moved to London from my home in Greece.” Aristotle, who trained to be a civil engineer, takes hundreds, sometimes thousands of pictures of cities at night and then weaves them together digitally into 10-foot-wide, insanely high-resolution compositions so rich, dark, and detailed that you feel like you can step into them. (All of which is hard to experience on your phone, I know.) Do follow him to see where the next generation of architectural photography might go.
Bill Shapiro framer editor of Life magazine ( 08.02.2020)
Bill Shapiro
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Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town
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Aristotle Roufanis (1983) Athene
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2018 - 2020 MA Fine Art Digital, Camberwell College, UAL
2018 Art Theory: Introduction to Aesthetics, Saint Martins College, UAL
2018 Book, Concept, and Narrative with Christian Patterson
2005 - 2006 M.Sc. Civil Engineering Structures. City University London.
2002 - 2005 B.Eng. (Hons) Civil Engineering. City University London
Selected Shows
2021 The Tides of the Century, Ocean Flower Island Museum - Hainan, China.
2020 Alone Together -soloshow -Contour Gallery
2019 The Summer Party - The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut (upcoming)
2019 Still here tomorrow to high five you yesterday - Zeitz MOCAA. Cape Town
2019 Miami Photo Festival
2018 Alone Together, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, Greece (SOLO)
2018 Troubled Intentions Ahead - Confusing Private & Public, CAFA Museum, Beijing.
2018 The Censored Exhibition - Copenhagen Photo Festival. Copenhagen, Denmark.
2017 The Vision of Saint Void. Depo Darm Contemporary Art Space. Athens, Greece.
Education
2018 - 2020 MA Fine Art Digital, Camberwell College, UAL
2018 Art Theory: Introduction to Aesthetics, Saint Martins College, UAL
2018 Book, Concept, and Narrative with Christian Patterson
2005 - 2006 M.Sc. Civil Engineering Structures. City University London.
2002 - 2005 B.Eng. (Hons) Civil Engineering. City University London
Selected Shows
2021 The Tides of the Century, Ocean Flower Island Museum - Hainan, China.
2020 Alone Together -soloshow -Contour Gallery
2019 The Summer Party - The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut (upcoming)
2019 Still here tomorrow to high five you yesterday - Zeitz MOCAA. Cape Town
2019 Miami Photo Festival
2018 Alone Together, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, Greece (SOLO)
2018 Troubled Intentions Ahead - Confusing Private & Public, CAFA Museum, Beijing.
2018 The Censored Exhibition - Copenhagen Photo Festival. Copenhagen, Denmark.
2017 The Vision of Saint Void. Depo Darm Contemporary Art Space. Athens, Greece.
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