Dimitris Yeros

"Dear Dimitris,

I like both the concept and the realization of your photos.

Perhaps men are learning something about innocence from the nudity of the animals.
Warmly"

"I am very pleasantly surprised by Dimitris Yeros - I only knew him as a photographer

and didn’t realize that he painted so extensively. These paintings remind me of ancient works, using the most elemental contrasts of black and white to tell the most mysterious stories on canvas.

Such works have always possessed a strong and enduring vitality."

"As an artist I have been the subject of many photographers. I greatly enjoyed meeting with Dimitris and looking at his work. I am proud of the photographs he took of me and regard his work with admiration. His photographs in the series “For a Definition of the Nude” with their interchange of senses between the naked animal and the naked human help us delve into the dual aspect of the naked as nature and as society while constituting another definition of art photography."

"Dimitris Yeros composes scenes as silhouettes, creating environments that simultaneously evoke the brilliant light of day and the darkening light of night. The effect is magical. The painter’s light is multiple. While day merges with night from scene to scene, Yeros’s figures evoke a sense of historical time and a range of human emotions. The recurring motif is a running man. The running figure sometimes appears to have come from the ancient Mediterranean but is more often contemporary. The figure is sometimes youthful and unclothed, but sometimes mature, wearing a business suit. Sometimes winged and sometimes not. A running bird-man appears, though without wings. Do these figures run toward a known destination, or do they run because they lack any destination, any purpose in life?"

" ...Dimitris Yeros has long been famous for his images of beautiful Greek men, often presented with a surrealistic twist, but here shown in their most overtly classical guise. Photography, and most especially photographs of the male nude, has always modeled itself on templates found in more traditional art forms. Yeros is the direct heir in this respect of the 19th century photographers Guglielmo Marconi and Wilhelm von Cloeden, and also of 20th century photographers of the male nude such as George Platt Lynes and Bruce of Los Angeles."

"Dimitris Yeros stands as a unique figure in contemporary art. Painter, photographer, poet and performance artist, Yeros bridges these worlds with exceptional originality. He is, however, best known as a painter and photographer, creating lyrical and surreal paintings and provocative and richly textured photographs. Although he approaches these two media from different vantage points, one can detect a painterly eye in his photographs and a photographer's sensibility in his paintings. The results are beautifully crafted and arresting images that beckon the viewer to pause and contemplate the human condition."

"Dimitris Yeros is also a poet of Mediterranean bodies : Egyptians and Greeks of an enigmatic beauty, proud of their age old nudity."

Dimitris Yeros

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