Artist’s CV
Sofia Kalogeropoulou was born in Athens in 1946. She is a graduate of the American College of Greece, graduated in Law and Political-Economic Sciences from the University of Athens, studied music at the Athens Conservatory and the “Studio” of the Vienna Opera. She appeared at the Vienna State Opera as a soloist in 1976-77 under her maiden name Sofia Mazarakis. In the art of painting, she is self-taught, and has participated in many exhibitions in Greece and abroad (Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, Israel, Turkey, United States of America). He is a partner of the “Gallerie Naifs at Primitifs” in Paris.
Sofia Kalogeropoulou is well known to the general public for her painting style. The painter adopts the “Naif” style, which is used to describe the work of self-taught artists, for immediacy and genuine, natural expression. Like children, she unleashes her inexhaustible imagination on canvas and creates colorful images reminiscent of folk art embroidery. It expresses itself in a surreal way under the reassuring guise of “Naiveism”, but at the same time extends in time from yesterday to the present and the future.
The titles of her works convey the important role of storytelling in Sofia Kalogeropoulou’s work, as well as her positive outlook on life.
