ARISTIDES PATSOGLOU was born at Lesvos in 1941, but he grew up in Athens, where his family moved in 1952. His life with Art began at his tender days at Lesvos, when, sheer childhood fascination attracted him to painting help- ing a local priest-hagiographer redoing the byzantine fres- cos in his small village church nearby. In Athens he appren- ticed in byzantine hagiography himself, restoring old ikons, and he was tutored by Panos Sarafianos, in art design and painting and in sculpture under Thanasis Apartes.
From 1965 onwards to 1969, won a Uni State scholarship and studied sculpture in the Athens school of Fine Art, under Yannis Pappas. He moved to Paris in 1969 he enrolled in Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts, tutor in sculpture by professors Cesar, Collamarini and engraving under professor Lagrange. Between 1974 and 1979, Aristides Patsoglou studies plastic arts and the science of the Arts at Paris VIII and from 1980 to 1983 reads philosophy of the arts with professor Muller, also at Paris VIII, mostly on the philosophical analysis of the image, while specialising on audio-visual techniques.
During 1981-1986 Aristides Patsoglou institutes the group LOGOS (Registration Number 1901), to which some fif- ty international artists become members. During these six years, LOGOS (meaning Reason) organises 30 exhibitions in France and in Western Europe, as well as many artists’ meetings exchanging ideas on art.
In 1984 Bernard Bioulac, then president of the Conseil Dépar- temental de la Dordogne, organises a retrospective of Aris- tides Patsoglou within the walls of the Renaissance Chateau Puyguilhem, when the Municipality of Perigueux commissions the monumental sculpture “La Famille”, which is placed in the square of the Mairie de Perigueux. In 1989 Aristides Pat- soglou creates a monumental fresco for the Mairie de Saint- Leu La Foret, as the participation of the town in the 200th
anniversary of the French Revolution. In 1991 he creates the trophies for the 1st Green Festival of Meaux in France, under the title “When the cinema defends Nature”.
Aristides Patsoglou works with the director Demos Abdeli- oties, in the performances of “An Ode to Alexandros Pana- goulis”, the “Woman of Zakynthos” of D. Solomos, “The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden” (Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín), “Apology of Socrates”, “The lament of the seal” and the “Furnace”, in the endyma- tological (costume design) art aspects of the performances. He works also with the director Leonidas Tsirigoulis in the performance of “Oedipus at Colonos” and “Bacchae”.
Aristides Patsoglou had more than 70 exhibitions worldwide, with shows in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Britain, Germany and Sweden. His works have been collected by world famous museums and collections, such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in Quebec, the Municipal- ities of Cahors and Perigueux, the Credit Agricole at Mans, Normandy, in collections in the then Soviet Union, Musée de pays Bas, Bureau de Tourism de Dordogne, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tunis, Tunisia, at Quai d’Orsay, the Min- istry of Foreign Affairs of France, at the Mairie de Enghien Les Bains, the Bibliothèque Albert Cohen at Saint-Leu, at Bank Credit Agricole at Tour, at Gare de l’Est Paris, the Na- tional Bank of Greece, the tube-station of Agios Eleftherios in Athens, at Patras Town Hall, at the Teloglou Foundation in Thessaloniki, Greece, at the Museum of Athens, at the City-Hall of Delphi and the European Cultural centre of Del- phi, the City Hall of Hermoupolis, at Syros, and many more foundations and cities in Greece.
Aristides Patsoglou has been awarded many Prizes and has taken part in a plethora of exhibition. He lives and works at Athens.
