Frear (literary magazine)

http://frear.gr/?p=22998

https://twitter.com/FrearGr/status/1060477141568184320

https://www.facebook.com/Frear.gr/posts/1949461661796548

Dark Ink Magazine Issue 3 (Fall 2018)

Three photographs from the Urban Decay series featured in Dark Ink Magazine issue 3.

https://www.darkink-press.com/magazine

Visual Poetry

Konmark: work in progress
 Visual Poetry (16 October 2018)

Koan

Loneliness...

Inseparable companion

Anguish...

Mother of creation

Patience...

Secret to success

All that was

All that will ever be

Realize this

And you are free

Το Φως

...και είπε τ'αγγέλου η φωνή:

δεν φταίει

το φως

φταίει

το φως

που αγαπάς

Elephant Journal

Angelic Flights pre-publicity in the Elephant Journal.

https://www.elephantjournal.com/now/angelic-flights-gabriel-rosenstock-introduces-a-project-with-photographic-artist-kon-markogiannis/

Konmark: work in progress

http://konmark.com/gallery_702084.html

Konmark: work in progress

Konmark: work in progress

Luminous Void #01

Luminous Void #02

Konmark: work in progress

M58 (Visual Poetry)

   http://www.m58.co.uk/post/177233417324/five-pieces-by-kon-markogiannis-kon-markogiannis

  https://twitter.com/m58poetry/status/1031869851323822080

 

 

 

 

 

Angry Old Man (Issue #4)

Three visual poems published in Angry Old Man, a magazine of experimental art and poetry.

https://angryoldmanmagazine.com/kon-markogiannis/

Angelic Flights

Coming soon...

Abject Flesh

"Significance is inherent in the human body."
-Julia Kristeva

Abject Flesh is a series of collages created by using various ephemera (such as scrap papers and torn book covers) and photographs found in old erotic magazines and discarded medical manuals. The work deals with the damaged body and subsequently negotiates issues such as fragility, impermanence, disease and death.
The collages could be described as a form of "abject art", a term first introduced in the 1990s by French psychoanalyst and literary theorist Julia Kristeva.  In her influential book Powers of Horror: An Essay in Abjection Kristeva talked about the idea of abjection as the basis of a differentiation between the self and non-self (the Other). For Kristeva the abject has an element of ambiguity: it is that which both revolts and attracts; she compares the aesthetic experience of the abject to a cathartic experience, “an impure process that protects from the abject only by dint of being immersed in it”.
Abject Flesh penetrates the most urgent taboos concerning the body and how we perceive it. The shocking and disturbing images force us to confront our innermost fears and agonies and attempt to illuminate those regions of our subconscious mind we would rather leave concealed. Ultimately the work challenges our preconceptions and ethical standards and provokes us to reexamine our established views on mor(t)ality.

View the series at:
http://konmark.com/gallery_738874.html

3:AM Magazine

Four “Poems Brut” published in 3:AM Magazine, an online journal of radical literature and philosophy.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/poembrut38/

Empty Mirror

Divine Decay featured in Empty Mirror, a magazine focusing on books, modern art film, music, writing, and the Beat Generation.

https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/visual-art/divine-decay-kon-markogiannis

F-stop Magazine Issue #89 June/July 2018 ("Altered Image" Exhibition)

Four images included in F-Stop magazine (issue 89, "Altered Image").

http://www.fstopmagazine.com/

Margutte

Angelic Flights pre-publicity in Margutte online journal.

http://www.margutte.com/?p=26836&lang=en

Angelic Flights

A publication entitled “Angelic Flights” is currently in pre-production featuring artwork by Kon Markogiannis, haiku poems in English and Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock, Greek translations by Sarah Thilykou and Japanese translations by Maki Starfield.

“…the exquisite fusion of image and word renders a deeply satisfying aesthetic experience, whereby we are transmuted by its profundity, exquisiteness and light. Indeed, accomplished artists in their own right, photographer and poet have melded their talents to produce a visceral and ethereal monograph on the flights of angels and in turn have lifted up our souls to the very gods...”

-Paula Marvelly (Author & Editor, The Culturium)

“…these glimpses caught in words or images are each so weightless and so shifting that you could think they have no substance… that is, until the moment when like curling smoke and light they touch each other in the darkness, and a bright perception takes form, looks back at us, comes alive…”

-Philip Gross (Author & Professor of Creative Writing)

The Woven Tale Press

Feature in The Woven Tale Press (literary and fine arts magazine)

http://www.thewoventalepress.net/2018/02/14/site-review-konmark/

Provoke

"For me cities are enormous bodies of people's desires."

-Daido Moriyama

Provoke is a photographic interpretation of the fragmentary nature of modern reality and a commentary on our obsession with the body, sex and materiality in general.

I chose to use high contrast, gritty and out of focus black and white photographs in order to convey the chaos of everyday existence and create an imaginal domain which gravitates between the objective and the subjective, the illusory and the real. The combination of photographs with other images (such as illustrations of butterflies, snakes and bones) was an attempt to create visual allegories and explore archetypal themes such as sin, redemption, death and rebirth.

The work ultimately serves as a metaphor for dark emotions and psychological states (isolation, fear, inner turmoil, subconscious desire etc). My harsh, crude depictions of the human body and the urban environment occupy an uncertain and uncomfortable territory that lingers between sensual pleasure and mental nightmare.

View the series at:

http://konmark.com/gallery_731708.html