Constantin Xenakis

Constantin Xenakis (; 28 December 1931 – 6 June 2020) was an Egyptian-born Greek-French painter and sculptor. 

His works were written script, in particular the Hebrew alphabet,Adrian M. Darmon, Autour de l'art juif: encyclopédie des peintres, photographes et sculpteurs, Carnot, 2003, p. 299.  symbols and codes of everyday life such as traffic signs, chemical symbols, Egyptian hieroglyphics and letters from the Greek, Phoenician and Arabic alphabets.

He was born in Cairo. He spent his career in Paris. His work is held in the National Gallery of Greecenationalgallery.gr  and the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art.mmca.org.gr 

He was made a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1986.

Xenakis died on 6 June 2020 at his home in Paris, aged 88.

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