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Hauts–de–France
Triennale Art & Industrie Dunkerque Hauts–de–France

Constantin Xenakis

1931-2020, Né à Le Caire, Égypte et défunt en Grèce

Constantin Xenakis (Le Caire, Egypte, 1931 – Greece, 2020) was a Greek painter and sculptor who later became a French citizen.

His work often incorporated written scripts, including the Hebrew alphabet, symbols and codes from everyday life, traffic signs, alchemy, zodiac signs, mathematical and chemical symbols, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and letters from Greek, Phoenician, and Arabic alphabets.