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Avramidis‘ central themes are the human figure and in particular the head. The artist was primarily influenced by Greek antiquity and the early Italian Renaissance but was also inspired by Constantin Brancusi, Hans von Marées, Wilhelm Lehmbruck or Oskar Schlemmer. Intimate studies of nature and consequent reductions and abstractions are the basis of Avramidis’ universal and timeless vocabulary. His sculptural work is often characterized by circular segments of aluminium arranged around a vertical middle axis. The kind of scaffolding that evolves in this manner is then filled with plaster, …