Dimitris Yeros

Dimitris Yeros at his studio

Dimitris Yeros (1948) (Eλληνικά - Δημήτρης Γέρος) is a Greek artist-photographer.

Dimitris Yeros is one of the most influential Greek artists of his generation^[1] and one of the first Greek artists to present Performances, Body Art, Video Art and Mail Art.

He has had 58 individual exhibitions of his works held in Greece and abroad:^[2] in Köln, Düsseldorf, New York, Kassel, Strasbourg, Bochum (The Bochum Museum), Oxford, England (Oxford University), Darmstadt, Indiana (Ball State University Art Gallery), Heidelberg, Nicosia, Mannheim, Milan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology), Berlin, Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno de Barranquilla-Colombia, Taipei-Taiwan and elsewhere. He has also participated in numerous international group exhibitions, Biennials and Triennials in many parts of the world.

Many of his graphics have been published by leading art editors. He illustrated books and magazines. In 1987, UNICEF chose his work The Dangers of Curiosity to print on cards for international circulation.

The following books with his works have been published: the collection The Sparkling Bathtub (Kastaniotis Ed., 1976); the photoseries Photopoem (Phyllo, 1977); the art book Yeros with text by Yannis Patilis (Phorkys, 1984); Dimitris Yeros, a book-catalogue of painting works (The Bochum Museum, 1986); D. Yeros, a book of painting works with an essay by Professor Chr. Christou (Prefecture of Viotia, 1998); Theory of the Nude, a book of photographs with an introduction by P.Weiermair (Planodion, 1998); Periorasis, a book of photographs with a foreword by Michel Deon and an introduction by P. Devin (Phyllo, 1999); For a Definition of the Nude, a book of photographs with an introduction by P. Weiermair (Phyllo, 2000); D. Yeros; a book of painting works Eyemazing - The New Collectible Art Photography with an essay by John Wood (Ermoupolia 2001); D. Yeros on C.P. Cavafy's poems, Kelsey Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan. With an assay by Lauren E. Talalay (2002); D. YEROS, Calendar (Harta Publications, Greece, 2007); Wavelength: D. Yeros and S. Karavouzis with an assay by Athens Schina (Kydoniefs Foundation, Greece, 2008); Dimitris Yeros, Calendar (Harta publications. Greece, 2008); Shades of Love with foreword by Edward Albee and introduction by John Wood (Insight Editions, 2010); Dimitris Yeros, Photographing Gabriel Garcia Marquez, with foreword by Edward Lucie Smith and afterword by Dimitris Yeros, (Kerber Verlag, Germany 2015); Another Narcissus, with a poem by Edward Albee and introduction by John Wood (Phyllo Editions, Greece 2016).

In 2010, Insight Editions-California published the book Shades of Love with photographs, inspired by the poems of Constantine P. Cavafy with a foreword by Edward Albee and introduction by John Wood. The book is honored by American Library Association and featured on their Top Ten list as one of the best books of the year.

In 2019 he made the documentary Ovil and Usman, lasting 47 minutes. It has been screened at various festivals. In 2021 he made the documentary A Lesbos Diary, lasting 25 minutes. In 2021 ERT 2 TV, the National Greek Chanel, made a 30-minute documentary about his life and his work.

Numerous works by Dimitris Yeros are to be found in many private collections, national galleries and museums worldwide: Tate Britain, International Center of Photography-New York, National Portrait Gallery-London, The British Museum (London), Museum Bochum (Germany), Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal (Canada), Museo de Arte Moderno Barranquilla, National Gallery-Athens, Greece, The Cohen Family Collection - New York, Maison Europeenne de La Photographie, Tama Art Museum, Tokyo-Japan, Museum of International Contemporary Graphic Art - Norway, Musee d' Art Contemporain of Chamalieres, New Hampshire Institu of Art- Boston The Leslie Lohmann Museum - New York and elsewhere.

He collaborates with the Throckmorton Fine Arts in New York, Holden Luntz gallery in Palm Beach, Pablo Goebel Fine Art in Mexico City, Skoufa gallery in Athens, and among else.

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Bibliography[]

DIMITRIS YEROS SHADES OF LOVE, By Clayton Maxwell. EYEMAZING MAGAZINE, Spring 2012

Another Narcissus. OUT magazine. August 2016

Dimitris Yeros Shades of Love. LE JOURNAL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE

MIAMI HERALD, April 12, 2012. Photo collection 'Shades of Love' by Dimitris Yeros, intro by Edward Albee.

Time Out, New York, October 22, 2015. Medium of Desire

Hyperallergic magazine, February 2, 2016. Medium of Desire, by Zachary Small

Musee magazine, Dec. 22, 2015. Medium of Desire

Odyssey magazine. Books: Shades of Love, Photographs Inspired by the Poems of C.P. Cavafy. By Vivienne Nilan. Jan-Feb. 2011

L’oeil de la Photographie. Edward Albee and Dimitris Yeros Another Narcissus. December 2, 2016

The Quarterly Review “Harbours hitherto unseen” – the charm of Constantine Cavafy, by Derek Turner. March 25, 2013

Η ΦΑΝΤΑΣΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΓΕΡΟΥ, ΣΥΝΕΝΤΕΥΞΗ ΣΤΟΝ Χρήστο Νικολόπουλο BHMAGAZINO 13 March 2016

La fortuna de retratar a García Márquez, El Universal, 9-12-2015

Inauguran exposición con imágenes de Dimitris Yeros, La Jornada 10-12-2015

EL HERALDO - Dimitris Yeros, el griego que retrató a Gabo, 27-11-2015

THE OPÉRA, Vol. IV 2015

New Light on the Magical Realist, by Derek Turner, Quarterly Review, 4-7-2015

Tribute to “Gabo” by Greek photographer Dimitris Yeros. By Olga Sella, Kathimerini 27-5-2015

Mi amigo Gabo, El Universal, 19-4-2015

El amigo griego que retrato a Gabo en su intimidad, by Gerardo Martinez. El Universal 17-4-2015

Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Dimitris Yeros. By Jaqueline Flynn. Musee magazine 12-5-2015

THE NAKED AND THE NUDE, BY GRAFICHE DELL'ARTIERE

New Yorker Magazine, by Vince Alleti, 9-7-2012

Shades of Love. Photographs inspired by the poems of C. P. Cavafy. By Richard Schneider. The gay and lesbian review worldwide, Sep-Oct. 2011

Shades of Love. Photographs inspired by the poems of C. P. Cavafy. By Jain Kelly. Focus magazine, spring 2012

Shades of Love. Photographs inspired by the poems of C. P. Cavafy. By Ara H. Merjian. Afterimage magazine, 1-1-2012

Shades of Love. By Raef Harrison, OUT magazine, 28-11-2011

Dimitris Yeros, by Cristina Franzoni. Zoom magazine, July 2011

Vernissage magazine, Septembre 2008

Art World, Oct-Nov. 2007

Blue magazine, Jan. 2004

Naked Truth - Proto Thema, 14-8-2015

Photoshooting Marquez, by Helen Bistica, kathimerini, 7-6-2015

The Greek who photographed Marquez, by Olga Sella, Kathimerini 16-5-2015

The Greek friend of G. G. Marquez. By Marinos Vithoulkas. People Magazine - Proto Thema 26-4-2015

Famous people of Mexico: Photonet magazine January 2012 issue

Deco-Tachydromos, Fall 2007

Maison and Decoration, Greek edition, issue No 76

Eleftheros Typos, by Eugenia Kaltezioti, 17-8-2008

David Leddick,Male Nude Now, New Visions for the 21st Century, Universe Ed,2001, page 70.

Evangelos Andreou, D. Yeros-The "myth" of a synthetic extravagant. “Katoikia” Magazine, is. 16 – Athens 1984

Edward Lucie-Smith, Gods Becoming Men, Fryssiras Museum, 2004, pages 15,76-79,96.

21st The Journal of Contemporary Photography, Volume VI, Flesh & Spirit,2004, pages 203- 207.

Edward Lucie Smith, Erotica.The Fine Art of Sex, Ivy Press Ltd 1997, reprinted Moscow 2004, page 27.

James Spada, The Romantic Male Nude, Abrams, New York, 2007, plates 56, 75, 130, 156, page 159.

“OK” magazine, ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΓΕΡΟΣ 17-7-2021

Revista Noche Labertino, 5th edition, 2018

ARA H. MERJIAN “Classicism Subverted” Paris April-May 2005

Eleftheros Typos, 24-5-20

Athena Schina : Man is the dream of a shadow, 2017

“Harbours hitherto unseen” –  the charm of Constantine Cavafy March 25, 2013 by Derek Turner

Ζέτα Τζιώτη. Εφημερίδα ΑΞΙΑ, Σάββατο 15 Μαρτίου 2020. Δημήτρης Γέρος: «Τρέχω να προλάβω να τα ζωγραφίσω όλα»

Γιάννης Κοντός: Ο Καβάφης και τα σώματα. 2015

Σάββας Χριστοδουλίδης, ΙΣΤΟΡΙΕΣ ΕΝΟΣ ΝΗΝΕΜΟΥ ΚΑΙΡΟΥ. Κύπρος 17-11-2014

Derek Turner , New lights on the magical realist, quarterly review, 2016

Dominique Nahas , Happenstance and Reverie in the Works Dimitris Yeros, 2020

Edmund White, The Big Solitary Man, May 2011

Edward Lucie-Smith. “Gods Becoming Men”

Michel Déon: Artist Dimitris Yeros

NEON magazine: Dimitris Yeros, Shades of Love…in the Time of Cholera, June 2016

Πλάτων Ριβέλης: Η αλήθεια τού φωτογραφικού γυμνού (D. Yeros, Θεωρία Γυμνού, Πλανόδιον) Ta Nea 1999

Vicki Goldberg: The Persistence of History, The Insistence of Time. Assay for the catalogue of the exhibition A Lesbos Diary, Throckmorton gallery. New York

Quentin Crisp: on the book Theory of The Nude . New York 2000

Yannis Kontos: THE DARK WAFT OF AIR AND THE FREEDOM OF THE SKY IN THE PAINTINGS OF DIMITRIS YEROS, 2015

Awards[]

The book 'Shades of Love' is honored by American Library Association and featured on their Top Ten list as one of the best books of the year.

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