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George Kouroupas, born in October 1969 in Athens, where he lived until 2001.


He attended painting classes during the period 1985 - 1988, at the 3rd Place of Youth in the Municipality of Galatsi near the artist Evi Ioannou, which replaced periodically, (1987-88) teaching painting in smaller classes (children from 6 to 12 years old).

From 1990 to 1997 he worked as a constructor, scene painter and scene designer in film and television (commercials, short films, video clips).

Then, in collaboration with Vaso Tsonoglou, worked in paintings, doing mainly oil paintings and acrylics on canvas in hotels, shops, companies and individuals.

From 2001 to 2010, he moved to Rhodes island, where he worked as a painter, sculptor, decorateur and scene designer. Influenced by the traditional arts of Rhodes worked on carving and sculpture in limestone,with pebbled flooring and mosaics.

He participated in three group exhibitions:
March 1987 in the gallery of the Municipality of Galatsi. August (Kastelorizo​​) and
October 2002 (Contemporary Art Gallery of Rhodes) in the event Mo.Te.R.2.

He has also made two solo exhibitions:
August 2001, the hall of the Cultural Department of his place of origin of Platanos (Kimi - Evia).
January 2003, the hall of Contemporary Art Rhodes.

George involved also with literature, he wrote two - unpuplished - novels. In 1999 he completed the "Silence ..." as well as the homonymous painting and in 2005 the novel ''Parallel Worlds''.

 


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    George Kouroupas, with all his surrealistic influences, paints and seeks more the cognitive and lessresponse to visual stimulation. Furthermore shifts in his work features to his second talent: the one of the set designer. Thus, his creations act as a cosmic space, a metaphorical reference to a scene of a science fiction movie. Looking at the paintining "Xenos" there is a transfer at the end of the Kostouritsa's film "Underground" where a piece of land detached and floats isolated along with the band. This is exactly the piece of Kouroupas land (cutted and disappeared from his mind?) travels in the vast universe, bearing his peculiar roots.


    Poly Hadjimarkou, Art Historian's fir George Kouroupas Exibition in Rhodes.