Music Composition #3 (2023)

Music Composition #3 (2023)

Relief on Panel / Board / MDF

Size: 100 x 75 x 7.5cm / 85 x 85cm (actual image size)

In these complex wall sculptures, various wood pieces coexist with numerous overlapping strings, creating ‘abstract’ 3D paintings/reliefs that refer to musical instruments and musical symbols. I have created musical instruments and sound sculptures in the past, which are kinetic or interactive. However, this time I try to represent sound and musicality only visually, in works that are static, not interactive, and silent, but can still reveal all the dynamics and tensions present in music. Different types of strings have been used (steel, brass, etc.) which refer to various musical instruments, but now acting as visual ‘line’ elements, that Koutsouris uses to ‘paint’ on his 'wooden canvas’.