DADA AND DEMOCRACY

Featured in the "Dada and Democracy" exhibition

 organized by Artdoc magazine.

https://www.artdoc.photo/online-exhibition/dada-and-democracy

 

Haiku in Action

A haiku  poem influenced by Buddhist teachings  featured in "Haiku in Action" (Nick Virgillio Writers Association).

https://www.nickvirgiliohaiku.org/

https://www.facebook.com/87583122771/photos/pcb.10158279470042772/10158279469967772/?type=3&theater

Heliosparrow Poetry Journal

Two visual poems featured in Heliosparrow Poetry Journal.

https://heliosparrow.com/category/artwork/kon-markogiannis/

Crisiology (The Covid Files)

The Covid Files [EN]

Created during the Covid-19 pandemic-lockdown the photo collages of Konstantinos Markogiannis are neither exactly a translation of the ongoing health crisis, nor a set of documenting machines, in any conventional point of view: they continuously oscillate, always operating in the in-between, reflecting the transformative operations of the collective psyche.

Existing in a state of spatial anguish and collapsed boundaries, these portraits of spectral entities merge subject and space: most of their parts are eerily vectored into a darkened, multi-layered facade and express the kind of invasive spatiality that is occasionally observed in the art of the mentally unstable.

Multifaceted physiognomies appear to function as nostalgic machines, in a manner of a mechanical bricolage, where specific components are chosen - out of a jumble of seemingly leftover and dismantled parts - in order to perform a new, specific tracing or translating task, regardless of their initial use and the task they were meant to perform. Thus, the artist becomes a mythmaker of narratives which deliver an uncanny tension, both visual and psychological - a true expression of the ongoing public health crisis.

 

The Covid Files [GR]

Τα φωτογραφικά κολλάζ του Κωνσταντίνου Μαρκογιάννη, που δημιουργήθηκαν κατά τη διάρκεια του lockdown της πανδημίας του Covid-19, δεν αποτελούν ακριβώς την πιστή μετάφραση μιας συνεχιζόμενης υγειονομικής κρίσης, ούτε ένα σύνολο συμβατικών μηχανισμών καταγραφής και τεκμηρίωσης: κυμαίνονται και λειτουργούν διαρκώς σε μία ενδιάμεση κατάσταση που αντανακλά τις μετασχηματιστικές λειτουργίες του συλλογικού ψυχισμού.

Τα απόκοσμα αυτά πορτραίτα υφίστανται σε μία κατάσταση τραυματικής χωρικής αγωνίας και μέσα σε όρια που καταρρέουν, συγχωνεύοντας το υποκείμενο και τον εκάστοτε χώρο του: τα περισσότερα από τα θραύσματά τους συνυπάρχουν σε ένα σκοτεινό, πολυεπίπεδο προσωπείο εκφράζοντας ένα είδος επεμβατικής διαδικασίας που παρατηρείται κάποιες φορές σε καλλιτεχνικά έργα ανθρώπων με ψυχική αστάθεια.

Οι πολύπλευρες αυτές φυσιογνωμίες φαίνεται να λειτουργούν ως νοσταλγικές μηχανές, ως μία μορφή μηχανικού bricolage: μέσα από ένα μείγμα υπολειμμάτων και αποσυναρμολογημένων μερών, επιλέγονται συγκεκριμένα εξαρτήματα προκειμένου να εκτελέσουν έναν νέο, συγκεκριμένο χειρισμό εντοπισμού και μετάφρασης, ανεξαρτήτως της αρχικής τους χρησιμότητας και σκοπού. Έτσι, ο καλλιτέχνης μετατρέπεται σε μυθοπλάστη αφηγημάτων δημιουργώντας μια αφύσικη οπτική και ψυχολογική ένταση, η οποία αποτελεί την πραγματική έκφραση της τρέχουσας υγειονομικής κρίσης του Covid-19.

 

Text by Spyridon Kaprinis / Κείμενο του Σπυρίδων Καπρίνη

 

http://www.crisiology.org/the-covid-files-en/ (English)

http://www.crisiology.org/el/the-covid-files-gr/ (Greek)

Monocle

http://www.monocleread.gr/2020/11/18/kwnstantinos-markogiannis-siwpilos-paratiritis/

Float magazine: The Great Escape exhibition

Escape from Reality by Kon Markogiannis featured in The Great Escape exhibition hosted by Float magazine.

https://www.floatmagazine.us/online-exhibitions/exhibitions/the-great-escape

gestalten (antibodies)

The Antibodies project featured in gestalten's Creative Pool.

https://news.gestalten.com/community/blackboard/antibodies

Covid-19 Archive (MOMus-Anthropause)

Artwork by Konstantinos Markogiannis featured in the Covid-19 Archive

 (MOMus-Anthropause).

https://res.momus.gr/el/anthropause-gr

More info here:

https://www.athensvoice.gr/culture/photography/688287_anthropause-anthropopaysi-sto-moyseio-fotografias-thessalonikis

https://cosmopoliti.com/episkepsi-tis-proedroy-tis-dimokratias-stis-ektheseis-toy-momus/

https://digitalculture.gov.gr/2020/10/ekthesi-anthropause-sto-momus-mousio-fotografias-thessalonikis/

ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΠΑΥΣΗ (ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟ ΦΩΤΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ ΘΕΣ/ΝΙΚΗΣ)

Γενική άποψη από τα εγκαίνια της έκθεσης στο Μουσείο Φωτογραφίας (20 Οκτωβρίου 2020)

Δύο έργα του Κωνσταντίνου Μαρκογιάννη και ένα έργο του Βασίλη Καρκατσέλη

Καθημερινές εικόνες από τον πρωτοφανή εγκλεισμό των περασμένων μηνών συνθέτουν τη νέα έκθεση του MOMus - Μουσείου Φωτογραφίας Θεσσαλονίκης (20 Οκτωβρίου 2020-31 Ιανουαρίου 2021).

Ο όρος "ανθρωποπαύση" γεννήθηκε στην καραντίνα και περιγράφει το φαινόμενο της σχεδόν πλήρους παύσης της ανθρώπινης δραστηριότητας και της ευεργετικής επίδρασης που αυτή είχε στα οικοσυστήματα του πλανήτη. 

Όπως εξηγεί στο παρακάτω video ο επιμελητής του μουσείου, κ. Ηρακλής Παπαϊωάννου, η έκθεση αυτή αποτελεί μία απόπειρα του MOMus να ανταποκριθεί σε ένα από τα μεγάλα και φλέγοντα  ζητήματα της εποχής μας.

https://www.makthes.gr/anthropause-101-thessalonikeis-fotografizoyn-tin-karantina-vinteo-fot-321471

The Connected World: 2020 Exhibition

In response to the extraordinary changes occurring in 2020 the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) partnered with the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) in San Diego to acknowledge the importance of photography and art in capturing historic world events.

The exhibition both portrays the significant changes that COVID-19 has wrought on the worldwide fabric of society, and addresses the changing consciousness around systemic racism and police brutality worldwide.

https://lacphoto.org/the-connected-world-2020-virtual-gallery/

MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts

Participating with one photo collage in the "Together, so Far so Close" exhibition (MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts, 20 October – 4 November 2020).

 

https://www.momus.gr/exhibition/twc_sfsc

https://www.facebook.com/MOMusExperimental/photos/a.752226354885125/3367116056729462/?type=3&theater

https://cityportal.gr/ekthesh-together-so-far-so-close-sto-momus-peiramatiko-kentro-texnwn,197675,237,7,0

https://www.typosthes.gr/politismos/231032_thessaloniki-dyo-nees-ektheseis-toy-momus-sto-limani

https://www.culturenow.gr/together-so-far-so-close-omadiki-ekthesi-sto-momus-peiramatiko-kentro-texnon/

https://www.ert.gr/roi-idiseon/thessaloniki-dyo-ektheseis-me-aformi-tin-pandimia-sta-momus-m-f-th-kai-momus-p-k-t-sto-limani/

MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

Participating with two photo collages and one screen projection in the "Anthropause" exhibition (MOMus -Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, 20 October-31 January 2020).

https://www.momus.gr/exhibition/anthropause

https://www.facebook.com/MOMusPhotography/photos/a.210384672334790/3540570675982823/?type=3&theater

https://www.typosthes.gr/politismos/231032_thessaloniki-dyo-nees-ektheseis-toy-momus-sto-limani

https://www.makthes.gr/anthropause-101-thessalonikeis-fotografizoyn-tin-karantina-vinteo-fot-321471

https://www.ert.gr/roi-idiseon/thessaloniki-dyo-ektheseis-me-aformi-tin-pandimia-sta-momus-m-f-th-kai-momus-p-k-t-sto-limani/

Monocle

http://www.monocleread.gr/2020/10/14/kwnstantinos-markogiannis-aiwnia-arxi/

 

THE EYE OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Antibodies featured in The Eye of Photography (L'Oeil de la Photographie).

https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/kon-markogiannis-vb/

CURARTINE VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

Three photo collages shown in the "Curartine / Izolyatsiya" virtual exhibition which features artwork created during the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic.

https://curarta.art/museum-space-1

FotoLimo Festival (XS edition)

Participating with three photo collages and three haiku poems in the #pandeMY -future under construction exhibition which is part of Fotolimo cross-border photography & visual arts festival (Portbou-Cerbère / French-Catalan border, 25th - 27th September 2020). The main focus of the festival is the issue of borders in the current context of global crisis.

https://fotolimo.com/en/start/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCilPsojbxH/

ANTIBODIES (SERIES OF PHOTO COLLAGES)

“The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.”

 

(Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex)

 

Antibodies  is a series of surreal photo collages created by using images from fashion,  lifestyle and erotic magazines. Utilizing techniques such as fragmentation, obliteration, overlapping and juxtaposition the artwork deconstructs the human body and challenges established notions of beauty, identity and sexuality.

Antibodies also tackles issues such as the supposed indexicality and "truthfulness" of the photographic medium and raises questions regarding ownership, copyright, and the appropriation and (ab)use of imagery. In this overtly hyper-technological, post-photographic age we live in the boundaries between truth and illusion are questionable. Images can be downloaded, appropriated and manipulated to a point where authorship is lost and the viewer is not sure what he or she is looking at.

Ultimately the work is a critique of the unhealthy obsession with bodily looks and a reaction against our constant bombardment with oversexualized, quasi-pornographic images by the media and the entertainment industry. It seems as if moral and aesthetic standards have lost their significance in an era of consumerist numbness, artificial pleasure, objectification and instant gratification.

 

Part 1:

https://www.konmark.com/gallery_765849.html

 

Part 2:

https://www.konmark.com/gallery_761868.html

Selected publications (books, journals, magazines, catalogues etc)

https://www.konmark.com/section726333.html

Work in progress (collages, paintings, photomontages, research, poetry)

Monocle

http://www.monocleread.gr/2020/08/19/kwnstantinos-markogiannis-tragikwmwdia/

Konmark Fine Art Photography, Collages, Visual Poetry, Digital Art, Mixed Media Art, Paintings

anti-human

Konmark (experimental photography-mixed media art-visual poetry)

https://www.konmark.com/

http://konmark.blogspot.com/

https://www.deviantart.com/konmark

https://konmarkimageswords.tumblr.com/

https://www.facebook.com/konmarkfineartphotography

PHOTOPOETRY (WORK IN PROGRESS)

SOCIAL UNREST

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

(Jiddu Krishnamurti)

Images by Kon Markogiannis and text by Spyridon Kaprinis.

https://www.konmark.com/gallery_744207.html

http://www.crisiology.org/el/socialunrest/

https://www.facebook.com/www.intellectum.org/photos/a.10150571732661994/10156035269596994/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157533521311944&set=a.10151899182841944&type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/photometria.photofestival/photos/a.1135909239946042/1171991843004448/?type=3&theater

“The global articulation of urban social movements that flourished in the wake of the financial crisis and the ensuing austerity measures constitute one of the defining features of what you consider to be new forms of urban activism.” [01]

-Joana Mayer in conversation with Margit Mayer

Social Unrest is a visual study that consists of photographs that act as an oscilloscope of contemporary societal developments. Today's pessimistic reality is mirrored in blurred, black and white palimpsests created by urban wall posters. Dark human figures, insurrectional texts, black flags and crosses create a wallpaper of existential anxiety and underlying social unrest.

The almost kaleidoscopic visual density of the posters reflects the various contrasting psychogeographical elements of a city that must be kept in constant vigilance prepared for the next protest or uprising. Torn and wrinkled, once crisp and clean, these posters are signs of a people's transition from a state of hope and optimism to a murky atmosphere of despair and social tumult.

Through the images of this visual study one can distinguish a substantial "nostalgia for what has been lost", as well as a basic need for "building a different kind of urban experience" [02]. If someone compares the superficiality of today's postmodern capitalist way of life with the "visual assault" these street posters seem to unleash, they will immediately realize that this is what the photographer wishes to achieve: a "visual incision" in our collective unconscious.

References:

 01. “Cities in the making: social movements, neoliberal urbanism and critical practices.” A conversation with Margit Mayer [2015]. https://lisbonconsortium.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/margit-mayer_cities-in-the-making.pdf

 02. Harvey, D.“ The Right To The City.”

 https://davidharvey.org/media/righttothecity.pdf

porno_sublime 

‘In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.’  

-Marquis de Sade

porno_sublime is a visual comment on the nature of sexuality and the human condition at large. This work was as an attempt to “sublimate” animal instincts: through artistic expression carnal desires can be “purified” and transformed into vehicles of redemption and spiritual catharsis.

 

https://www.konmark.com/gallery_667582.html