THE PROJECTIONIST'S PLAYGROUND (Issue 9 March 2019)

Shade of Gray is featured in The Projectionist's Playground, a quarterly zine for innovative and

experimental work in photography, montage, art and poetry. Poetry can range from collage,

 concrete, found poetry, sound poetry to open field, dada, cut-up and beyond.

https://the-projectionists-playground.com/

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/671931364/the-projectionists-playground-zine-issue?ref=shop_home_active_1

Otoliths magazine (issue 52)

Four collages-visual poems featured in Otoliths magazine (issue 52).

https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2018/12/kon-markogiannis.html

http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young-editor/otoliths-issue-fifty-two-part-two/paperback/product-23975006.html

Poiein (3 poems)

Three poems (in Greek) featured in Poiein magazine.

http://www.poiein.gr/2019/01/06/κωνσταντίνος-μαρκογιάννης-ποιήματα/

Crisiology

Social Unrest is featured in Crisiology, a project-network

 about and beyond the cultural crisis of the modern world

 (with the Greek crisis as a pretext).

http://www.crisiology.org/socialunrest/ (English)

http://www.crisiology.org/el/socialunrest/ (Greek)

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

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/

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/

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.

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

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/

Kon Markogiannis, Gabriel Rosenstock and Sarah Thilykou: Angelic Flights

Kon Markogiannis and Gabriel Rosenstock offer a collaboration of image and word focusing on the fragility of life, with haikus in both English and Gaelic, as well as modern Greek translations by Sarah Thilykou.

https://www.theculturium.com/kon-markogiannis-gabriel-rosenstock-sarah-thilykou-angelic-flights/

Diffusion Volume IX

Kon Markogiannis is featured in Diffusion, Volume IX
Artfully Crafted Photography Annual

Pre-Order Sale: 124 pages, full colour, perfect bound softcover

http://shop.diffusionmag.com/product/diffusion-ix

https://onetwelvepublishing.com/2017/11/diffusion-ix-pre-order/

Superstition Review

My work is featured in Superstition Review's 20th Issue.

https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue20/art/konmarkogiannis

Multifaith: work in progress

Working on a project called “Multifaith” which involves photographing objects and researching the world's religions and wisdom traditions.

The Culturium

The Culturium explores the interface between mystical spirituality and the cultural arts. It is devoted to showcasing the compositions of writers, filmmakers, artists, performers, musicians, philosophers, sages and poets who have delved deep into the silence within and created work that is timeless, wise and beautiful.
https://www.theculturium.com/kon-markogiannis-memento-immortality/

Diffusion IX

https://www.facebook.com/DiffusionAnnual/photos/a.10150650439927248.422078.154878082247/10155724369052248/?type=3&theater

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZmMKssD31i/

Interalia Magazine

Interalia Magazine explores the interactions between the arts, sciences and consciousness.

https://www.interaliamag.org/emerging-ideas/kon-markogiannis-mind-patterns/

Paranormal Review

Paranormal Review Photography Competition finalists.

http://ruickbie.com/index.php/2017/08/31/the-finalists/

Float Photo Magazine

Constructed Narratives, Imagined Realities featured in Float Magazine.

http://www.floatmagazine.us/konmarkogiannis

Alternative Reality

“Divine Decay 39” selected for “Alternative Reality” exhibition (curated by Ashley Kauschinger for Float Magazine).

http://www.floatmagazine.us/alternativereality

Archive: Soul Vessels

(A building) is nothing else but  a “life tool”, a “life vessel” (a temporary refuge for the human body).

-Aris Konstantinidis

Archive: Soul Vessels is an experimental project comprised of found ephemera and photographs which form a quasi-fictional architectural-psychogeographical archive. The term “soul vessels” was inspired by Greek architect Aris Konstantinidis who coined the phrase “life vessels” to describe buildings as functional spaces whose sole purpose is to serve human needs.

The work challenges the “traditional” concept of the archive: it is not only “important” and “celebratory” photographic moments that are worth collecting and assembling. The emphasis is on ideas concerning day-to-day living, the burden of constant wear-and-tear, and the inevitable damage and erosion of all objects and living beings.

In a certain sense Archive: Soul Vessels is an attempt to rewrite and re-register reality, as if creating an array of urban portals which open onto a plethora of mental spaces. Through this meticulously assembled pseudo-archive the deepest strata of the imagination can be explored: imprints of past realities, which are fused into the photographed relics, are rediscovered and reinterpreted generating new auras of the unknown.

-Text by Spyridon Kaprinis

Archive: Soul Vessels

"The various definitions of congruence describe a situation where a state of harmony and agreement is perceived or achieved. There is a governing notion of similarity, albeit a strange one: it is not a complete equivalence, nor a complete disjunction. Furthermore, in psychology, the concept of congruence is more related to «genuiness», realness and to interpersonal relationships that are true and «transparent», having no «front», no facade... In architecture and design, congruence can be encountered and perceived as a transcendental trait, which has the capability of being constantly adapted and transformed, according to any specific situation or design problem that must be faced and tackled."

Text by Spyridon Kaprinis

www.archisearch.gr/article/428/

Fraction Magazine Issue 98 (Ninth Anniversary Issue)

Fraction Magazine features the best of contemporary photography, bringing together diverse bodies of work by established and emerging artists from around the globe.

 http://www.fractionmagazine.com/98-2

Artists Inspire Artists

Divine Decay featured in “Artists Inspire Artists”.

http://artistsinspireartists.com/mixed-media/divine-decay-kon-markogiannis

The Visual Armistice

Three images selected for “The Visual Armistice”,

 Plates to Pixels Annual Juried Showcase.

http://platestopixels.com/blog/the-visual-armistice/

Magazine feature

http://averageart.co.uk/magazine.html

http://averagearts.bigcartel.com/product/average-art-magazine-february

LensCulture

LensCulture is one of the most authoritative resources for contemporary photography from around the world. It is committed to discovering and promoting the best of the global photography community.

https://www.lensculture.com/kon-markogiannis

KONMARK IMAGES WORDS

Blog covering multiple topics such as ancient and contemporary art, sacred sites and architecture, experimental photography, existential and perennial philosophy, world mythology and folklore, transpersonal psychology, parapsychology and the occult, eastern and western poetry and literature, world cinema, meditative music, alternative history and archaeology, comparative religion, esotericism, hermeticism, mysticism, contemporary spirituality, integral theories, psychedelic research, science and the evolution of consciousness.

http://konmarkimageswords.tumblr.com/

Asia House exhibition

https://twitter.com/asiahouseuk/status/779244260998647808

Celeste Prize 2016

Divine Decay 39 longlisted for the Celeste Prize 2016.

https://www.facebook.com/celestenetwork/posts/1246672182024306 

https://www.celesteprize.com/selections/pg:in16/tipo:a/ 

https://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:391539/

ArtGemini Prize 2016 Exhibition

Thursday 22 September – Friday 30 September (10.00 – 18.00)

Asia House Gallery

63 New Cavendish St W1G 7LP London United Kingdom

http://www.artgeminiprize.com/shortlisted-artists-2016/

http://asiahouse.org/events/art-gemini-prize-2016-exhibition/

Royal Photographic Society

The Royal Photographic Society

https://www.rps-international.org/about/shortlist-159/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEs27xEAjpK/

Sam magazine (editor`s pick May 2016)

Editor's pick, Sam Slovak art magazine (May 2016)

 http://www.sam-magazine.sk/en/galeria-vyber-redakcie-maj-2016/

 

Divine Decay

 “Despite wide recognition that art has an important commercial aspect, art sustains its cultural image as an essentially sanctified domain of higher spiritual values, beyond the realm of material life and praxis”. [01]

-Richard Shusterman

Divine Decay is a series of photographic/mixed media constructions informed and inspired by holy texts, illuminated manuscripts, death memorials, alchemical/occult symbols, sacred geometry, religious icons and Renaissance panel paintings. The work deals with memory, remembrance and decay and tackles issues such as spirituality which is often neglected but also essential for the well-being and inner balance of the individual in our hypertechnological and increasingly materialistic society.

The gritty and damaged appearance of the images alludes to fragility, mortality and the transient nature of earthly existence. Although such subjects are generally perceived as rather morbid and depressing, reflection on their significance could prove to be an illuminating way of reflecting on life. Photography is a medium often associated with death and impermanence: in her influential book On Photography Susan Sontag suggests that “all photographs are memento mori.” “A photograph,” she says, “is  (participation) in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability.” [02]

The use of photographic portraiture intends to affect the viewer on a visceral and spiritual level: quite often a face has been described as “the mirror of the soul” and even today some cultures believe that a photograph somehow captures the soul of a person. The combination of portraits with religious iconography, holy texts and various esoteric symbols suggests that death may not be a definite full stop but -perhaps- a gateway to another kind of existence. According to many religions and wisdom traditions life on earth may be perceived as a gift, a learning experience or a kind of journey. The father of analytical psychology C.G. Jung (who combined various fields of research such as religion, mythology and alchemy) believed that the human psyche has a relatively trans-spacial and trans-temporal nature. As he has argued, “we are not completely subjected to the powers of annihilation because our psychic totality reaches beyond the barrier of space and time.” [03]

Life after death as a concept is somewhat incomprehensible, ungraspable and unfathomable. Nevertheless, it is perhaps something we ought to consider and prepare for. The aim of  Divine Decay is to remind us both of our finitude and our potential immortality: via playful combinations relationships are formed which result in a kind of alchemical synthesis of various elements which seek to communicate with the viewer on an aesthetic, esoteric and spiritual level.

References:

[01] Shusterman R. (fall 2008) ‘Art and Religion’. Journal of Aesthetic Education. 42 (3), p.2.

[02] Sontag, S. (1978) On Photography. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

[03] Jung, C.G. (1999) Jung on Death and Immortality. Princeton University Press, p. 132.