Konstantin Dimopoulos’s multidisciplinary art practice incorporates sculpture, installation, performance, painting, printing and drawing in the creation of monumental imagery, social and environmental interventions and conceptual proposals that argue the potential of ‘art’ as a means of social engagement and change.
Drawing from his diverse personal cultural and political history, Dimopoulos fashions a visual language based on thematic and contextual constructions. These evolving pictorial narratives are descriptive of such varied issues as domestic violence, environmental ecocide, homelessness, and cultural appropriation.
Konstantin Dimopoulos was born in Port Said, Egypt to Greek parents and grew up at the mouth of the Suez Canal. His early paintings and prints explored the human condition ‘with a stark bravura’ – in the installation, Mind at the End of its Tether and The Barbed Wire Sang. In the 1990s, flexible shafts of carbon fibre became his new material of choice for purely linear, abstract kinetic sculptures exploring the volatility of natural forces. His pared-down colour palette led to primarily monochromatic applications, also visible in his large-scale steel sculptures.
Installations such as Level 4 and Kroc and the Creation of the Big Byte, at public gallery and museum venues explored the ‘viral’ aspect within contemporary civilisation.
“Konstantin Dimopoulos is one of Weiwei’s kindred spirits. He is a social and performance artist whose artworks are grounded in his sociological and humanistic philosophies.” Embracing Change Through Art, Design & New Leadership by Ilaria Forte and Dr. Peter Everts, Germany.
“I'm thinking of everything from Pussy Riot and Ai Weiwei’s courageous stands for freedom of speech and human rights to ecologically inspired work like Buster Simpson’s Beckoning Cistern and Konstantin Dimopoulos’s Blue Trees.” Julia Hensley, Seattle NEWS.
b. 1954, Said, Egypt
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019
Miami Art Fair
2017
Invited artist, Geopoetics, Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada
2015
Solo show, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
Group show, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Group show, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia 2013
Invited artist, Busan Biennale, Korea 2013 Invited artist, Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island, NZ
Group show, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2012
Group show, Paige Blackie Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Solo show, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2009
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
2008
Melbourne International Art Fair (Conny Dietzschold Gallery)
2007
Auckland Art Fair (Conny Dietzschold Gallery)
Cologne Art Fair (Conny Dietzschold Gallery)
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
SELECTED SCULPTURE COMMISSIONS - PRIVATE
2020
Rising Knoll, Kinzelman Art Consulting for Howard Hughes Corporation Bridgeland urban development, Cypress TX
2018
Windgrass, Kinzelman Art Consulting for Howard Hughes Corporation Bridgeland urban development, Cypress TX
And Still I Rise, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Jacksonville FL
The Rope Whisperer, Colorado Convention Center, Denver (neon)
2017
Crimson Field, Queenstown, New Zealand
2016
Three Graces, City of Cerritos, Los Angeles
2014
The Blue Tree, San Diego CA 2014 Red Field, Deakin University Art Collection, Melbourne, Australia
2012
Red Stix, Home Plate Plaza, Seattle WA
2010
Blue Tree In A Red Landscape, RACV Healesville Country Club, Australia
…..and the wind whispered your name. Holocaust Memorial Sculpture, Leo Baeck Community Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2007
PULSE, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
SELECTED SCULPTURE COMMISSIONS - PRIVATE
2014
Wheatfield With Crows, Meadows Recreation Centre, Edmonton, Canada
2012
Golden Field, Jean Oxley Service Center, Cedar Rapids, IA
Giants Amongst Us, City of Palmerston North, New Zealand
2011
Voyager, City of Gisborne, New Zealand
2010
Red Echo, City of Palm Springs, CA
The Red Forest, Denver, CO
Dancers On A Lakefront, Belconnen Arts Center, Canberra, Australia
Ripples and Journeys, City of Monash Civic Centre, Melbourne
2006
Red Centre, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia Colour Field, City of Whittlesea, Aurora urban development, Epping, VIC
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