Special Information for the Artist
Born in Athens, in 1948.
From 1969 to 1974 he studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts, taught by N. Nicholaou and G. Moralis. From 1972 to 1974 he studied set design and decoration at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Vassilis Vassiliadis. Three years at the Ecole des Beaux Art in Paris (1975-1978), taught by Gustave Singier. He made his first solo exhibition in 1977.
Professor at the School of Fine Arts, Dimitris Koukos has presented his work in many solo exhibitions in Greece and abroad, as well has taken part in many group exhibitions.
His works can be found in private collections both in the U.S., France, Italy, England and the National Gallery of Athens, Rhodes Gallery, Museum North, Cultural Foundation of the National Bank, the Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education of Cyprus and the National Bank.
Dimitris Koukos is a painter, who in every effort seeks to readjustment between aesthetic experience and its poetic interpretation of the world. The painting could be seen closely as topography and even abstract or lyrical. Essentially, it is a intersection, a record, not of physical or visual image aesthetics, but the physical energy and visual revelation. In his paintings explode morphological microcosms, while broad brush strokes of building forms with a sense of music. In the world of Koukos no darkness or shadow, only light. The light in color and instantiation takes to create the world of images, the universe of forms.
