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.

Photos from Photometria Festival

Alovebigas magazine

f-stop magazine #74 (Telling Stories)

Four photographs from "Constructed Narratives, Imagined Realities" featured in f-stop photography magazine issue #74 Dec 2015-Jan 2016 (Telling Stories).

http://www.fstopmagazine.com

Work in Progress (21-11-2015)

Photometria 2015 (Thessaloniki)

“Faith” group show at “OKTO” photogallery (Thessaloniki, Mitropoleos 125).

Private view 15 Sep 2015 (8 pm). Duration: 16 Sep-25 Sep (Mon-Fri, 10am-8pm).

  http://www.oktophotography.gr/

Photometria Festival 2015 (Faith)

An exhibition of 25 photos based on the theme of "Faith". Held at the Municipal Cultural Multiplex (old slaughterhouses) of Ioannina from 27 May to 7 June 2015. The exhibition will travel to eleven Greek cities.

Photometria Festival is a cross-cultural meeting point bringing together ideas, traditions, worldviews and expressive media from all over the world. It includes a network of several cities across Greece and four European countries.

www.photometria.gr

https://www.facebook.com/Photometria

Work in Progress: Memorial Chapel II

mixed media assemblage

Work in Progess: Memorial Chapel

Bibliotheque magazine

http://www.bibliotheque.gr/article/45288

https://www.facebook.com/435205189825589/photos/a.435212593158182.105291.435205189825589/997764863569616/?type=1&theater 

Θεσσαλονίκη: Φωτογραφίζω την πόλη μου που αλλάζει

Photography exhibition at Alaca Imaret Mosque (Kassandrou 91-93, Thessaloniki, 20-24 Dec 2014)
http://www.photocontest-thessaloniki2014.com/gallery 

http://thessaloniki4all.gr/el/places/μεταβυζαντινή-εποχή/alaca-imaret

http://www.thessaloniki2014.eu/

Photometria Festival στη Θεσσαλονίκη και άλλες πόλεις

                                                                                                                                                      Η έκθεση Photometria Awards 2014 "Reflection" συνεχίζει το ταξίδι της σε διάφορες πόλεις της Ελλάδας. 4-21 Σεπτεμβρίου θα φιλοξενηθεί στην Θεσσαλονίκη στο Art Room Propaganda Rollin Co Store (Ισαύρων 7).

Oι πόλεις και οι ημερομηνίες του tour είναι:

Πάργα, Villa Rossa  20 Ιουνίου - 8 Ιουλίου 2014

Πάρος, Ξενοδοχείο Αργοναύτης 12- 30 Ιουλίου 2014

Κεφαλλονιά, Saristra Festival 8-10 Αυγούστου 2014

Θεσσαλονίκη, Art Room Propaganda Rollin Co Store 4-21.9.2014

Αθήνα, Athens House of Photography 24.9-13.10.2014

Βόλος, Πολυχώρος Τσαλαπάτα 6-23 Νοεμβρίου 2014

Χανιά, Νεώριο Μόρο (Ιστιοπλοϊκός όμιλος Χανίων) 2-9 Δεκεμβρίου 2014

Άργος, Αψέντι καφέ 17 Δεκεμβρίου 2014 - 11 Ιανουαρίου 2015

Πάτρα, 22 Ιανουαρίου - 1 Φεβρουαρίου 2015

Μυτιλήνη, 2 - 6 Μαρτίου 2015, εκθεσιακός χώρος ΦΕΜ , Πιττακού 15

Πρέβεζα, 20-29 Μαρτίου 2015

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/640630266052614/

https://www.facebook.com/Photometria

Φωτογραφία απ'το Saristra Festival στην Κεφαλλονιά.

                                                                                                                                                  Το Saristra Festival είναι το σημαντικότερο καλλιτεχνικό γεγονός των Ιονίων Νήσων, ένα μουσικό και εικαστικό φεστιβάλ στα ερείπια του παλιού χωριού των Βλαχάτων Κεφαλλονιάς. Εκθέσεις εικαστικών τεχνών, προβολές ταινιών, σεμινάρια και διαλέξεις καθώς και δραστηριότητες για παιδιά φιλοξενούνται στα χαλάσματα των σπιτιών.                                                                                                                                http://saristrafestival.gr/ προγραμμα/παραλληλεσ-δραστηριοτητεσ/

                                        Φωτογραφία απ'τον Πολυχώρο Τσαλαπάτα στον Βόλο

Το Εργοστάσιο Πλινθοκεραμοποιίας Ν.  & Σ. Τσαλαπάτα ήταν ένα από τα μεγαλύτερα του είδους του. Τα εργαστήρια και οι βιομηχανικοί χώροι έχουν αναστηλωθεί και αποτελούν σήμερα σπάνιο δείγμα διασωζόμενου βιομηχανικού συγκροτήματος στον ελληνικό χώρο.

http://www.piop.gr/MuseumNetwork/MouseioPlinthokeramopoieiasTsalapata/ToMouseio.aspx

                             Φωτογραφία απ'την έκθεση στη Φωτογραφική Εταιρεία Μυτιλήνης 

Φωτογραφική Εταιρεία Μυτιλήνης

Πιττακού 15, 81100 Μυτιλήνη, 2251041555, photo@fem.gr

http://www.fem.gr/index.php?option=3&sub=&id=266