He initially engaged in trade but he also attended drawing classes at the Corfu Evening School.
[1][2] In 1937 he settled in Athens and enrolled at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), where he studied until 1939 under the guidance of Thomas Thomopoulos, Kostas Dimitriadis and Michael Tombros.
As an artist he participated in dozens of individual and group exhibitions in Greece, England and France.
[1] Aperghis began working with stone as his main material, but later on he switched exclusively to metal.
[4] Until 1946 he followed the "academic" tradition in his works, influenced by his professors at the Athens Academy of Fine Arts.