Fuku Cosmonaut / February ’17








CATEGORIES:
James Wylie (Iran kemençe, saxophone, composer/text author) – Ziad Rajab (Vocals, oud) – Nikos Paraoulakis (Ney) – Thimios Atzakas (Oud) – Electra Miliadou (Viola da gamba) – Nikos Varelas (Percussions) – Fausto Sierakowski (Saxophone)
Γιάννης Αγγελάκας & 100°C / Portrait / 2015 Portrait of Giannis Aggelakas and his band line up, which as of 2015-16 consisted of Labrini Grigoriadou, Anastasis Voukiklarakis, Giannis Savvidis, Giorgos Avramidis and James Wylie.Shot with available light last September, image was used on the artist’s tour posters and media promotion throughout their 2015-16 tour.
From left to right: “Εύα / 002”, “Βικτώρια / 004”, “Χρύσα / 001”, “Δήμητρα / 003”, “Χριστίνα / 005” ///// 2015, 80×80 cm each
Digitally created collages, printed and mounted on kapa-fix. A photograph was used as the starting point for creating each piece and parts extracted from that photograph became the structural components of the final image. While imitating painting techniques, the medium itself is stripped from technique and craftsmanship and with the use of a simple medium, such as a digital picture, the images aim in redefining the pictured themes both materially and theoretically and questioning the way that we are perceiving and marketing ourselves as a product.