ART
COLLECTION
The Gallery has gained recognition and appreciation not just on the island, but also around the world. The gallery's original artworks have been exhibited in museums, foundations, banks, and private collections.
The Galanopoulos Art Gallery have been involved in capturing
the beauty of Santorini since 1986, and the efforts have resulted
in a art collection that showcase Santorini's unique charm and allure.
Photographing the convex surfaces of the Cycladic architecture.
There are 15 years now of photographing the Cycladic islands, placing special emphasis on old staircases and doorways which they all seem abandoned in a silent world... but somehow show that they have a kind of there on way to speak.
By observing them, I understand more and more the magical world
they represent, many years ago the old builders experiment by giving elliptical sculptural forms to the buildings they create by combining the solid structure with the expressive mobility, without any possess of the knowledge we have today however they seem to have conquered a great truth.
Our world is not made out of straight lines but curves.
The curve plays a key role both at the psychological and scientific level in the universe we live in and likewise is equally decisive in the Cycladic architecture.
Today when I go back to photographing my favorite spots, I feel a tightness in my stomach as a strange feeling holds me.This truth is no longer there, every day is disappearing more and more, in the name of evolution the curve surfaces are replaced by meaningless straight lines.
With my photos, I try to create to create a common element between the curved surfaces of Cycladic architecture and the modern elliptical shapes that we see the last century in modern art and at the same time express my anxiety about a
cultural heritage that is gradually disappearing.
About Doors
I always was fascinated with the concept of doors, But why? The mystery behind the closed doors triggers my imagination. Doors like as everything in nature have contradictory properties, like the Roman god of gates Janus who represented the middle ground between both concrete and abstract dualities with two faces: we see one or the other of the faces depending upon which direction we look from.
Doors are connections, in our real life or in our psychological world we cross all the time, they can lead us just to next room or in another world, is up to us to decide the direction.
We can only imagine the truth behind the closed door till we manage to opened it and then there will be always another door to cross…
Cycladic Stairs
Cycladic Stairs a collection of photography capturing the timeless allure of the iconic white stairs winding through the Cycladic islands. Every time I photograph Cycladic stairs, I am reminded of the famous quote by Heraclitus: "The way up and the way down is one and the same." These stairs, with their simple yet profound design, embody this philosophical notion, symbolizing the cyclical nature of life and the interconnectedness of all things. Throughout history, artists have been drawn to the symbolism and beauty of staircases. From M.C. Escher's mind-bending infinite stairs to Claude Monet's romantic depictions, staircases have served as both architectural features and metaphors for the journey of life. In "Cycladic Stairs," I pay homage to this rich tradition while also capturing the unique charm of the Cycladic islands. The white stairs, winding like whispered secrets through the rugged landscape, possess a heightened symbolism, inviting viewers to contemplate the deeper meanings hidden within their geometrical patterns and architectural simplicity. Join me on a visual journey through these Cycladic stairs, where each step carries us closer to the essence of existence, reminding us that the way up and the way down are indeed one and the same.
Can we see the sound?
Cymatics, experimental photography on water vibrations, these images where made in my studio in Oia using a home made cymatics machine.Sound is an invisible force that permeates every aspect of our lives. Yet if we could see sound our world would be even more beautiful than we could imagine. To see sound is to open a new window onto our world, one that has been veiled in mystery until recently.
Cymatics, the study of wave phenomena and vibration, is a scientific methodology that demonstrates the vibratory nature of matter and the transformational nature of sound. The term (Kymatiks in German), was adapted from the Greek word for wave, to Kyma, in the 1960s by Swiss medical doctor and natural scientist, Hans Jenny.
Nothing rests, everything is in motion and everything vibrates, the matter, energy, and even spirit, are simply varying rates of vibration. A classic example of this being frequency in which the seven octaves of music, tuned up 44 octaves, miraculously becomes the spectrum of visible light (passing through states of being the buzz pitch of insects, ultra-sound, plasma, ether, hyper sound, and even octaves of heat.) While they change manifestation, the vibrations maintain the same correspondence, the difference being only in measurement and energy as frequencies slide up the electromagnetic spectrum.
Tibetan singing bowls are known for their soothing harmonic tones, the effect is the same as the gentle tones produced by rubbing a moistened finger around the rim of a wine glass. It’s due to a phenomenon called resonant frequency. Tibetan singing bowls filled with water could resonate strongly enough to propel droplets off the water’s surface. Those resonances slightly change the shape of the bowl, and the energy from that shape-shifting generates so- called Faraday waves” in the water within. Eventually the resonant effects become so strong that you get breaking waves and fizzy droplets even thoughts have their own rate of vibration, and can be controlled like tuning an instrument, to produce various results for the aim of self and environment mastery. As your understanding of vibration, frequency, harmony and resonance increase, so too shall your power over yourself and your world.
At the highest rates of vibration the rate and intensity are so rapid it appears to be motionless, like a spinning wheel appearing stable. And at the lowest levels of vibration, objects move so slowly they appear to be totally at rest. Between these two, exist infinite manifestations all occurring at varying octaves of vibration, each with their own phenomena.
The Swing of the Pendulum
The pattern which connects
Epigenesis is a series of photographs that are trying to capture the motion of the pendulum, The essence of epigenesis is predictable repetition; the essence of learning and evolution is exploration and change.
Each long exposure photograph is produced with a small light attached to the bottom of a large Foucault's pendulum that swings and sways moving across a 30 square meters designated space, a pendulum literally is in photographic terms, a pencil of nature. Pendulum’s swings appear random and chaotic at the beginning but when observed for a long time through an open shutter a dance of shifting series of patterns appears as they swing to their own vibrations, the pattern shifts over time, as is held at a height, it possesses potential energy, and as it falls, its potential energy is converted to kinetic energy until finally the pendulums reach his equilibrium state.