Artist’s CV
Dimitris Koukos
Dimitris Koukos was born in Athens in 1948.
From the 1969 to the 1974 he studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts with their teachers Nikos Nikolaou and Yannis Moralis. From the 1972 to 1974 he studied decoration and set design at the Athens School of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Vassilis Vassiliadis. Three years at the Ecole des Beaux Art in Paris (1975-1978), with Gustave Singier as teacher . He had his first solo exhibition in 1977.
Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Dimitris Koukos has presented his work in many solo exhibitions in Greece and abroad, as well as in many group exhibitions.
His works can be found in private collections in the USA, France, Italy, England, the National Gallery of Athens, the Rhodes Gallery, the Vorres Museum, the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education of Cyprus and the National Bank of Cyprus.
Dimitris Koukos is a painter, who in his every effort seeks to redefine the aesthetic experience and the poetic interpretation of the world. His painting could narrowly be considered as topography and even abstract or lyrical. In essence, it is a metachemistry, a recording, not of the physical image or visual aesthetics, but of physical energy and visual revelation. In his paintings, morphoplastic microcosms explode, while his broad brushwork builds the forms with a musical feeling. There is no darkness or shadow in Kouko’s world. only light. Light is substituted in colour and takes over to create the world of images, the universe of forms.
