Artificial Horizons
Artificial Horizons
This series of photography artworks makes a clear and basic reference to how sunlight behaves while going through the polluted atmospheric strata. Any gas or aerosol and in general any airborne pollutant suspended in the air will scatter rays of sunlight into separate wavelengths of light, especially when the sun is low in the sky. Consequently air pollution reduces the total amount of light that reaches the surface of earth, resulting more colorful, brilliant and intense sunrises and sunsets. The intention behind the creation of these works is to depict multiple artificial horizons. Abstraction and the horizontality of the forms are two elements of these works that can be observed immediately. The creation of ambient fields, in which the depth of a form is incapable of being perceived, has been achieved by repetitive switching of light and dark areas, usually without any clear indication of borders, and by a change from one color to another. The strict horizontal direction creates a sense of expansion beyond the left and right edges of each work.
The starting point of these works is abstract close-up photographs of interior and exterior architectural lighting details. In each work, two or three of these photos have been pasted one on top of the other to create layers, while their opacity has been adjusted in order to create the final impression.
Enchanted by the works of contemporary artists like Dan Flavin, James Turrell, Spencer Finch and Olafur Eliasson, and at the same time by more classic ones, such as William Turner, Ivan Aivazovski, Leonardo da Vinci and Hieronymus Bosch and struck by the necessity of the flow of electromagnetic radiation for matter to be revealed to us humans through our neurophysiological pathway, I was inspired to create these landscapes, by capturing what light materializes. A significant source of my interest is the knowledge that light has been the concern of scientists, philosophers, artists and architects throughout the history of human intellect, from antiquity until the present day.
Tolis Tatolas
This series of photography artworks makes a clear and basic reference to how sunlight behaves while going through the polluted atmospheric strata. Any gas or aerosol and in general any airborne pollutant suspended in the air will scatter rays of sunlight into separate wavelengths of light, especially when the sun is low in the sky. Consequently air pollution reduces the total amount of light that reaches the surface of earth, resulting more colorful, brilliant and intense sunrises and sunsets. The intention behind the creation of these works is to depict multiple artificial horizons. Abstraction and the horizontality of the forms are two elements of these works that can be observed immediately. The creation of ambient fields, in which the depth of a form is incapable of being perceived, has been achieved by repetitive switching of light and dark areas, usually without any clear indication of borders, and by a change from one color to another. The strict horizontal direction creates a sense of expansion beyond the left and right edges of each work.
The starting point of these works is abstract close-up photographs of interior and exterior architectural lighting details. In each work, two or three of these photos have been pasted one on top of the other to create layers, while their opacity has been adjusted in order to create the final impression.
Enchanted by the works of contemporary artists like Dan Flavin, James Turrell, Spencer Finch and Olafur Eliasson, and at the same time by more classic ones, such as William Turner, Ivan Aivazovski, Leonardo da Vinci and Hieronymus Bosch and struck by the necessity of the flow of electromagnetic radiation for matter to be revealed to us humans through our neurophysiological pathway, I was inspired to create these landscapes, by capturing what light materializes. A significant source of my interest is the knowledge that light has been the concern of scientists, philosophers, artists and architects throughout the history of human intellect, from antiquity until the present day.
Tolis Tatolas