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Selected Bibliography | Articles | References | Texts by Costas Varotsos
2007 Segno d Oro 2007 award, Art First, Bologna, Italy
2004 Bob kant, Art in the Open, The Palm Beach Illustrator, p. 128, January, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Segno Magazine, Mostre & Musei, p. 20, No 195, March-April
Yakoumatos Andreas, Abstraction and Symbolism, Square in Aghios Ioannis Rentis, Athens, in Archtecture in Greece, No 38/2004 p.189, 38/2004, Athens, Greece
2003 Sarah Eisehauer, in The Palm Beach Post, Art on a grand scale come to Gardens, June 21, p.p. 1,2, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA
2001 A. B. Oliva, A. Bellini, M. Skaltsa, texts in the catalogue of the exhibition in The Foundation of Hellenic World, New York, Athens
Manos Stephanides, Hellenic Museum, Militos Publishers, p.p. 476,477,478,479, Athens, Greece
2000 Glenn McNatt, Show Full of Ingenuity, Reflections, in The Sun, November 7, Baltimore, USA
Friederike Schmid The Energy of A Space in This Side Up, No 3 Spring, Leende,
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Costas Varotsos
He was born in Athens in 1955. He studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and continued his studies in architecture at the ArteScuola di Architettura at the University of Pescara in Italy.
From early on his work crosses the boundaries between painting and sculpture, and demonstrates his interest in transparent materials and in the relationship between the art and the environment. He began to exhibit regularly in leading galleries in Italy and Greece and over his thirty-year career exhibited his work in many solo and group exhibitions throughout the world.
In 1983, with the encouragement and support of mega-collector Dakis Ioannou, Varotsos creates his first monumental public sculpture “Poet”. The 6-meter high glass plate sculpture is placed at the historic relic Famagusta Gate cultural centre in Nicosia. His renowned 8-meter high sculpture “The Runner” is a landmark of central Athens. Over career, Varotsos created and installed sculptures for priva
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Costas Varotsos was born in 1955 in Athens. He studied painting at the Academia di Belle Arti in Rome (1973-76) and architecture in Pescara, at the Arte Scuola di Architettura of the University of Pescara (1976-81), where he began his career with exhibitions and performances. His first solo exhibition was organized in Athens (Desmos gallery, 1982), shortly after his return to Greece and he participated in Europalia '82 festival in Belgium. His work was still between painting and sculpture, but he had already demonstrated an interest in transparent materials and in the relationship between the work of art and its environment. In 1983, he built a large sculpture of glass plates in Nicosia, Cyprus, entitled Poet, which would be placed at the historic relic and cultural center of Famagusta Gate. From this experience, the famous Runner of Athens will evolve; an 8-metre-high sculpture of glass and metal, which was placed initially at Omonia Square (1988) and was afterwards moved to the