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Born in Athens in 1945, he studied engraving at the
Athens School of Fine Arts on a scholarship (1963 -
1968). He pursued his studies for a postgraduate degree
in painting (1971 - 1975) at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Munich, thanks to a German State Exchange (DAAD)
scholarship, a student of Hermann Kaspar and Karl Fred
Dahmen. He was an ‘Art Group A’ member (1960 - 1967),
part of the art team working for ‘Epitheorisi Technis’
(Art Review) magazine and a member of various art groups
involved in political activities: he was a founding
member of the ‘New Greek Realists’ (1971-1973), the
Figurative Arts Center (1974 - 1976) as well as Munich’s
‘10/9’ (1975). In 1977 he accepted an invitation the Art
Program of the city of W. Berlin had extended and thus
settled in Berlin. It was in 1987 he moved to Brussels
before eventually returning to Greece in 1992. In 1994
he was elected full-time professor at the Athens School
of Fine Arts where he still teaches to date. As of 1966
he has been systematically featuring his works in big
cities, in Europe and the US as well as in Japan, in
solo shows and group exhibitions.
He has published the following art books: Nychterino
taxidi: Mikra keimena gia tin techni (Night
journey: Small Texts on Art,
1998), Anthi tis petras: Ikones pano stin poeisi tou
Giorgou Seferi kai deka portreta tou poeiti (Stone
flowers: Images from Giorgos Seferis poetry and ten
portraits of the poet, Jannis
Psychopedis & Titos Patrikios, 2000), Odos Pireos:
Mikra keimena gia tin techni (Pireos
street: Small Texts on Art,
2004) and Nostos: Mikra keimena gia tin techni (Nostos:
Small texts on Art,
2009). He lives and works in Athens. |
