Apostolos Kilessopoulos: Ever-shining Worlds

Dr. Katia Kilesopoulou, PhD in Art History and Exhibition Curator, X-rays its universe: “A retrospective on the dominance of light within the worlds created for years by Apostolos Kilessopoulos, a prominent figure in modern Greek art. His Worlds, at the threshold between reality and vision, natural order and chaos, and the competition between regenerative and destructive forces, receive the invasive, beneficial effect of light.

A painter of light (-colour), inspired by primordial memories, beliefs, and scientific findings, by physics and metaphysics, the philosophical questions of human existence, and the meaning of Creation, Kilessopoulos always opened up to explorations beyond the boundaries of conventional visual expression. His expressive means, meticulously worked over the years, are the pliable tools that serve his continuous transformative processes. Even the most uninitiated viewer of his art is urged to leap upward, into skies unprecedented as ‘images,’ yet familiar as conscious or subconscious experiences. A renewer of the meaning of visual expression, having treasured the developments of Art throughout time, through painterly or constructivist vortices—both centripetal and centrifugal—Kilessopoulos reminds us of the rhythm of the World, the timbres of creation that transform the familiar structural elements of composition into unprecedented morpho-plastic conceptions.”