Stamatis Galanis, Essay writer -
Poet Member of the Hellenic Association of Writers Athens, Greece September 2021
A small critique to Argyris Bothos (Boareye) sensational work.
Unconventional to traditional practices, uniquely unorthodox, and highly
eclectic to his form of art, Argyris is shifting our notice to a deeper level
of consciousness and emotional empathy. His eccentric and passionate
eye captures the spontaneous segments of vitality through his oblique
lenses and reforms the tiny glimpses of still-life moments to energy, social
motivation and romantic, melodramatic motion. His craft comes across,
once silent and serene, and once exuberant and plethoric. A world of
stalkers, individuals, shadows, coupled with a variety of unique
colorations that successfully enhance the beauty of loneliness, social
despair and introverted distance in the modern-day society. Notions of
peace and tranquility sprawl in front of our minds, however, far beyond
our reach of expectations. My intuition argues that Argyris attempts to
feel absent from the material, pragmatic world he lives in. Conversely,
he indulges himself to a poignant parallel of alternative street life art as
he endorses his subjects with a certain attractive humanism, pure
kindness and mother-like love and security, well versed to our senses. His
photographs penetrate our unsuspicious minds with beauty and
emotion and conjure pure life moments at their best. Strange reality,
emptiness, vanity, meaningless interests, loneliness, happiness or drama,
come severely affected artistically by a silent elegy. In sum, his work can
be addressed as timeless, yet seriously agonizing through the passing of
time itself. Realistic, yet profoundly romantic and poetic. I have,
therefore, become a serious follower of him and his sensational craft.