Dimitris Yeros

Dimitris Yeros as this studio

Dimitris Yeros (born 1948) 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 52 individual exhibitions of his works held in Greece and abroad^[2]: in Köln, Düsseldorf, New York, Kassel, Strasbourg, Bochum (The Bochum Museum), Oxford (Oxford University), Darmstadt, Indiana, USA (Ball State Art Gallery), Heidelberg, Nicosia, Mannheim Milan, Ann Arbor-Michigan (Kelsey Museum), Berlin, and elsewhere. He has also participated in numerous international group exhibitions, Biennials and Triennials in many parts of the world.

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 with an essay by John Wood^{[disambiguation needed ]} (Ermoupolia 2001).

At present he is working on another book with photographs based on the poems of C. P. Cavafy.

Works

Works by Dimitris Yeros are to be found in many private collections, national galleries and museums both in Greece and abroad,

such as the British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles,

the International Center of Photography in New York, the Tama Art University Museum in Tokyo and others.

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  Young woman with Peackock, colour photograph, edition of 5, 80 x 120 cm

External links

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• Website
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Bibliography

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

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.

References

1. ^ Athina Schoina, Dimitris Yeros-Sarantis Karavousis, Wavelength, Petros and Marika Kydoniefs Foundation, Andros 2008, pages 18-21.
2. ^ Athina Schoina, The Pathways of Greek Painting, International House of Music, Moscow 2007, page 20.

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