Photography
A World of Immaterial Objects
They are standing there flashily saturated underneath the mid-day sun, mute, unmanned, and inanimate. They pick me because I am very curious to see what their immaterial version would look like and because I am fascinated by the ontological, the artistic, and the semantic discourses surrounding their existence;
Unmanned and Inaminate
I am wandering around urban spaces holding my camera seeing and capturing unmanned and inanimate places and objects.y hypothesis is that although these constructions exist in public spaces, they normally go unnoticed. I shoot these to render them worth seeing proposing a new version of them.
About me
Yiannis Galanopoulos
Visual Artist
He has participated in numerous solo and group international art exhibitions in the UAE, Europe, the USA, Australia, China and Japan. His work has been acquired by private and public collections. He has a BFA in Photography and Multimedia, a Master of Arts degree in Humanities and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Studies. He is a PhD Candidate at the Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology in Australia and holds an assistant professor’s position at Zayed University Abu Dhabi.
Graphics
Cover Girl
There are more than 130 woman magazines in circulation worldwide. Most of them are featuring portraits of healthy (mostly young), beautiful and charismatic females advertising commercial products, services, know-how and live-how ideals. Undoubtedly, ever since the invention of the daguerreotype, what makes a successfully marketable portrait/cover is the physiognomic beauty and the emissive femininity of the featured cover girls. So inextricably linked are the face on the cover with the commercial output of a magazine that in colloquial language, we affluently use the term: “The Face of this or that magazine”
Portfolios
Latest News
Seafront Views
The internal need to explore our natural environment, interdependent with the instinct for survival, searches for a secure location on the trajectory that connects the eye with the point of its visual saturation. This is how limits are defined…..A need, driven by the desire for knowledge or the thirst for conquest, depending on the degree we sense it, can trigger the renegotiation of our relationship with time, space and man.
Meeting Ends
Meeting Ends is an aerial prospect depicting man-made and natural forms. These are tangled by human determinism to exploit, map and establish ownership over planet earth. The collection of works show an equally positive and negative space, where human intervention on natural recourses and desire for order meet resistance by cosmic morphology and geometry.
The new (ab)normal
Views from Ex-Patria concerns global trends of migration and border politics. I have been an expatriate since 1998.
Interested In My Work?
Collaborations with both non-profit and commercial venues are welcomed. Please feel free to contact me, if I can contribute in any way in your project, whether that is exhibition, publication, work presentation or gallery talk.Professional, student, and amateur artists are encouraged to establish communication with me, asking support (ie editing, critique) for the realization of their individual projects.