Born in Athens. Atelier in Le Pecq and digital studio in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.
Member of the ADAGP, Member of EETE Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece.


Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts d’Athènes Greece 1967/1973 degrees in painting and scenography ; among his teachers the painter Nikos Nikolaou and the writer Pandelis Prévélakis in art history.


Famous Artist School Westport Connecticut USA : illustration and graphics 1967/1969.

Engraving (etching, hand-cutting, engraving on linoleum) in Abel Renault studio, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1976/1980.

Industrial design at l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 1977/1978.

 

BEFORE THE TRANSITION TO DIGITAL ART

From 1977 personal and collective exhibitions in France, in Greece and other countries in painting, engraving, drawing, volume work.

In 1976 meeting and friendship with Jean Rudel painter, academic and professor emeritus of art history and manager of the Ateliers of Art in St Germain en laye. Participation in 1990 in the Art Biennal Show on the theme « APOCALYPSES » at the Manège Royal in St Germain en Laye.

In 1994 beginning of a cooperation with the writer, art historian and art critic Gérard-Georges Lemaire:

  • 1996 Artistic book “Transgressions” : engraving on linoleum by Sotiris Barounas, poem by Michèle Schuller, preface by Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Eric Koehler ed. Assistance to the first edition by the DAP (department for visual arts). Book presented in the BNF catalog ( Richelieu and François Mitterrand libraries).
  • August 1996 TRANSGRESSIONS : personal exhibition of engraving on linoleum in Uzès multimedia Library and Enclos de la Source (temporary summer place of contemporary art)
  • In 1997 order of contemporary, original bookplates for a series of exhibitions in France and abroad.

June 1997 15th Poetry market Paris St Sulpice square : presentation of “Transgressions” by the bookshop A Propos in St Germain en Laye.

2010 registration of Copyright at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Richelieu library) of the engraved work, i.e. 59 etchings and 37 linocuts.


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