ANGELIC FLIGHTS (PHOTO-HAIKU)

Angelic Flights is a collaborative project 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.

 

"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 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)

 

https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780893047092/angelic-flights.aspx

https://thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/6321

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vuEG3lw5xI

Koukidaki

Κριτική-παρουσίαση της ποιητικής συλλογής Ίχνη Φωτός.

https://www.koukidaki.gr/2021/10/ihni-fotos-markogiannis.html

Haiku in Action Poetry Anthology

Featured in the Haiku in Action Poetry Anthology (Volume 2).

https://www.nickvirgiliohaiku.org/shop/haiku-in-action-anthology

https://www.nickvirgiliohaiku.org/blog/2021/haiku-in-action-anthology

16th Annual Black and White Spider Awards

16th Annual Black and White Spider Awards (Nominee)

https://www.thespiderawards.com/gallery/16th/gallery.php?fid=240584&cid=495&x=Professional&g=n

Prix de la Photographie de Paris (2021)

Honorable Mention 

(2021 Prix de la Photographie de Paris)

https://px3.fr/winners/hm/2021/1-97301-20/

Ίχνη Φωτός (Κριτική-Παρουσίαση)

Κριτική-Παρουσίαση του βιβλίου Ίχνη Φωτός από τον Απόστολο Θηβαίο.

https://www.culturebook.gr/kritiki-parousiasi/konstaantinos-markogianni-ichni-fotos-parousiasi-apo-ton-apostolo-thivaio.html

The Awakened One (poetry anthology)

Featured in a new publication entitled The Awakened One.

 

Pairing contemporary haiku by poets from around the world with classical Japanese haiku, The Awakened One offers us a poetic dialogue on the nature of awareness across culture and time.

Modern haikuists from the UK, the US, Croatia, India, Nigeria and a dozen other countries converse via haiku with Japanese masters, like Basho, Issa and Buson, sharing moments of insight expressed in poetry of a single breath.

 

https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2021/08/27/new-book-the-awakened-one/

https://www.amazon.com/Awakened-One-Buddha-Themed-Haiku-Around-ebook/dp/B09DB4QG36

ΒΙΒΛΙΟΠΩΛΕΙΟ ΙΑΝΟΣ

H ποιητική συλλογή "'Ιχνη Φωτός" του Κωνσταντίνου Μαρκογιάννη στο βιβλιοπωλείο Ιανός.

https://www.ianos.gr/ichni-fotos-0515821

ΒΙΒΛΙΟΠΩΛΕΙΟ ΠΡΩΤΟΠΟΡΙΑ

H ποιητική συλλογή "'Ιχνη Φωτός" του Κωνσταντίνου Μαρκογιάννη στο βιβλιοπωλείο Πρωτοπορία.

https://www.protoporia.gr/markogiannhs-kwnstantinos-ixnh-fwtos-9789606382369.html

Authoring Melodies

Άρθρο-κριτική της ποιητικής συλλογής "Ίχνη Φωτός".

https://authoring-melodies.blogspot.com/2021/08/blog-post_04.html

https://www.facebook.com/groups/authoringmelodies/posts/962168390995161/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSJ10c2otoD/

MonoVisions Photography Awards (2021)

Honorable Mention (Fine Art Category) in the 5th edition of MonoVisions Photo Awards (2021)

https://monovisionsawards.com/winners-gallery/monovisions-awards-2021/show/5973

Word For/ Word (issue 37, summer 2021)

Three animated poems featured in Word For/ Word magazine (issue 37).

http://www.wordforword.info/vol37/Markogiannis.html

AvantAppal(achia) issue 9

Featured in issue 9 of AvantAppal(achia), an

 e-zine of avantgarde poetry, art and short stories. 

https://www.avantappalachia.com/

Athens Voice

Στις επιλογές της Athens Voice η ποιητική συλλογή του Κωνσταντίνου Μαρκογιάννη "Ίχνη φωτός".

https://www.athensvoice.gr/culture/books/poiisi/721254_ihni-fotos-toy-konstantinoy-markogianni

Συνέντευξη (εκδόσεις Βακχικόν)

Στα… ίχνη του φωτός, στα ίχνη της ποίησης με τον Κωνσταντίνο Μαρκογιάννη.

https://www.vakxikon.gr/sta-ixni-tou-fotos-sta-ixni-ths-poihshs-me-ton-konstantino-markogianni/

"Ίχνη Φωτός" του Κωνσταντίνου Μαρκογιάννη (εκδ. Βακχικόν)

Ποιητική συλλογή από τον εικαστικό καλλιτέχνη και ποιητή.

https://ekdoseis.vakxikon.gr/shop/ekdoseis/vakxikon-poetry/ixni-fotos/

https://issuu.com/vakxikon.gr/docs/markogiannis_preview

https://biblionet.gr/προσωπο/?personid=132030

https://www.monocleread.gr/2021/07/06/vakxikon-kwnstantinos-markogiannis-ixni-fwtos/

https://www.captainbook.gr/book/ixni-fotos-9789606382369

https://osdelnet.gr/book/1277900

https://www.bookia.gr/index.php?action=book&bookid=257661&booklabel=Ίχνη%20φωτός

https://www.ammonbooks.gr/product/ichni-fotos/

https://www.anagnostisbooks.gr/ixni-fwtos-9789606382369-markogiannis-kwnstantinos

https://www.athensvoice.gr/culture/books/poiisi/721254_ihni-fotos-toy-konstantinoy-markogianni

https://www.bookworld.gr/gr/book/bkid/255843/ichni-fotos

https://www.bookleader.gr/ixni-fwtos-9789606382369

https://www.ianos.gr/ichni-fotos-0515821

https://www.protoporia.gr/markogiannhs-kwnstantinos-ixnh-fwtos-9789606382369.html

https://www.bookbox.gr/item/ichni-fotos--9789606382369

https://www.lavyrinthos.net/p/146054/ixni-fwtos.html

https://www.bibliotopia.gr/product/405066/biblia-logotexnia-poiisi-elliniki-ixni-fotos-/

https://www.greekbooks.gr/catalog/product/view/id/302381/s/ichni-fotos/

https://www.politeianet.gr/sygrafeas/markogiannis-konstantinos-132101

https://www.eleftheriskepsis.gr/p/146054/ixni-fwtos.html

https://www.texnesonline.gr/2021/07/2021.html

https://www.public.gr/product/books/greek-books/literature/greek-literature/ihni-fotos/prod14080116pp/

https://www.somanybooks.gr/book/ichni-fotos/257661

https://www.eurobooks.net/p/146054/ixni-fwtos.html

https://metabook.gr/books/ikhni-fotos-konstantinos-markoghiannis-273298

https://www.booklovers.gr/ixni-fotos-103040.html

https://www.aristotelisbooks.gr/product2.asp?TitlesID=257661&catid=

https://www.bibliohora.gr/41/1/Είδος/Βιβλίο-Νεοελληνική-ποίηση/261630/Ίχνη-φωτός/

https://www.clbooks.gr/shop/ίχνη-φωτός/

https://pawbooks.gr/product/ιχνη-φωτοσ/

https://www.bookthebook.gr/product/ιχνη-φωτοσ/

https://kbooks.gr/Categories/POIISI/Ιχνη-φωτος

Divine Decay (gestalten creative pool)

Divine Decay featured in gestalten's Creative Pool.

https://news.gestalten.com/community/blackboard/divine-decay

 

ARTE ARCANA DEATH

Featured in the "Arte Arcana Death" book published by Heavy Music Artwork. Available for pre-order (official release date 30-9-2021).

https://store.heavymusicartwork.com/products/arte-arcana-death

Work in Progress/Old Ideas/Objects/Constructions/Still Lifes (13-5-2021)

WORK IN PROGRESS: INHUMANOID

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”

(George Orwell, 1984)

 

Inhumanoid is a series of surreal photo collages informed and inspired by the anti-war

photomontages of John Heartfield and Peter Kennard, Soviet Constructivist propaganda

posters, 20th century dystopian literature and Hollywood science fiction movies.

The work reflects and comments upon various issues such as war, greed, politics,

capitalism, terrorism, conspiracy theories, technological evolution, space exploration,

 extraterrestrial contact, transhumanism and the "new world order".

 

Relevant links: 

https://konmarkimageswords.tumblr.com/post/617096391026688000/since-the-late-1960s-peter-kennard-has-made

https://konmarkimageswords.tumblr.com/post/151998369746/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep-is-a-science

https://konmarkimageswords.tumblr.com/post/166014237546/neuralink-a-neurotechnology-company-founded-by

https://konmarkimageswords.tumblr.com/post/161075524921/steven-m-greer-md-is-founder-of-the-disclosure

https://konmarkimageswords.tumblr.com/post/152465021421/transhumanism-is-an-international-and-intellectual

International Street Photography Exhibition (Glasgow, Scotland)

Featured in the International Street Photography Exhibition organized by

 The Glasgow Gallery of Photography.

https://twitter.com/GlasgowPhotoGal/status/1375395590960472065

https://www.facebook.com/glasgowgalleryofphotography/photos/pcb.2179449072190807/2179448768857504/?type=3&theater

Monocle

http://www.monocleread.gr/2021/03/19/kwnstantinos-markogiannis-diglwssa-xaikoy/

 

Monochrome exhibition

Participating in the "Monochrome" virtual exhibition

 organized by Blank Wall Gallery.

https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/5183756/monochrome-2021

Order the exhibition catalogue here:

https://www.blurb.com/b/10631219-monochrome-2021-vol-1-2

 

gestalten (the covid files)

The Covid Files featured in gestalten's Creative Pool.

https://news.gestalten.com/community/blackboard/covid-files

TIFA 2020 Awards

Silver in Fine Art/ Collage (Tokyo 2020 International Foto Awards)

https://www.tokyofotoawards.jp/winners/social/2020/Antibodies

Otoliths magazine (issue 60)

Eight visual pieces featured in Otoliths magazine (issue 60).

https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2020/11/kon-arkgiannis_2.html

DAILY HAIGA JOURNAL

Featured in Daily Haiga, a journal of contemporary and traditional haiga.

https://www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archives/2852/-bird-flies-by-kon-markogiannis-greece

https://www.dailyhaiga.org/contributors/2853/markogiannis-kon-greece

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 creative pool

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/