Signed, 1996, Dimitris Alexiou, Sotiris Sorongas, Greek Poetry & Art, 1/488

Δημήτρης Αλεξίου

Επάλληλος μύθος – Epallilos Mythos

Προμετωπίδα Σωτήρης Σόρογκας

Dimitris Alexiou

Continuous Myth

Frontispiece by Sotiris Sorongas

Signed by the poet and the illustrator 

Signed and dedicated by Nikos Vozikis (typographer of Diatton)

to director Giorgos Dimitropoulos

Published  by Diatton Athens in 1996

Second and limited Edition

1/488 copies here copy Nr. 173

47 pages

Original Paper Binding

15 cm x 20.5 cm

Dimitris Alexiou was born in Alepochori, Laconia, in 1949. He has lived and worked in Athens since 1963. He studied film directing. His texts have been published in numeral newspapers. He has translated Lucian’s Funeral Dialogues. His poems have been included in anthologies in Greece and abroad. Invited by the University of Illinois, USA in April 1983, he spoke there on the topic: “Contemporary Greek Poetry”. He is a member of the Writers’ Association.

Sotiris Sorongas (born in 1936) is a Greek painter. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1955-1961) under Yannis Moralis and, for a year, took lessons in icon painting at the School’s applied arts workshop. In 1972, on a grant from the Ford Foundation, he traveled to New York, Chicago, London and Milan to familiarize himself with what was then current in modern art. The same year he organized his first solo exhibition at the Hilton gallery, having already started to exhibit in 1962. He has also presented his work in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, among which are the Sao Paolo Biennale of 1981, the Brussels Europalia in 1982 and the Engraving Biennale at Baden-Baden in 1983. He was a founding member of the League of Modern Art and a member of the Group for Communication and Education in Art and participated on the editorial committee of the Greek magazine Spira. Also interested in art on a theoretical level, he has published articles in newspapers and magazines, a selection of which appeared in 1992 in a book entitled, Margins-References to Problems of Visual Space. Since 1965 he has taught drawing and color at the Architectural School of the National Technical University. In his painting, which is figurative but at the same time moves on a transcendental level, and outside a series of idealized female portraits and another one with horses, he usually produces landscapes, deserted and silent in which, on a white background, rocks, pieces of wood and ruins are the dominant elements, alluding to the passage of time, deterioration and abandonment.