John Aslanidis

For over twenty years artist John Aslanidis has defined a space between sound and vision, through seeking to create “paintings you can hear and sound you can see”. His paintings take the form of numerous interlocking and exponentially expanding concentric circles that are painstakingly mapped and masked out, and evolve from an intersection between music and painting.  This stream of artistic interrogation has a historical lineage that stretches back to the beginning of the 20th century and the birth of international modernism, yet the musical genre that Aslanidis responds to is rooted in the electronic music movement that came to prominence in the 1990s. Creating paintings of vibrational vibrancy that actively engage with the science and perception of sound – his work reflects a confluence of visual and aural stimuli that also mirrors the phenomena of synesthesia, where the senses become blended. These are paintings that are experienced by the body, and as such reclaim a contemplative awareness of the senses within the rush and tumble of the digital consumer age.

1961
born in Sydney

1989
Bachelor of visual Arts, City Art Institute

1990
Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW

1995-98
Member of Clan Analogue (collective of electronic sound and visual Artists) 

1998-1999
Committee member of stripp Gallery Melbourne

1999-2015
Based in Melbourne exhibiting in Australia and Internationally