Leonidas Painting

Costas Spiliotopoulos constitutes an utterly distinct case of a plastic artist so for the expression of his work pattern as well as for his strictly personal writing.Except all the above,his based on experience approahc to managing his material as wellas his themes (an approach purely anthropocentric) demostrates the creators deep agony.The object of his agony is the communion of his audience to his personal visions. Through his work we depict not only an ingenuous love for the human, but also a deep respect for his dreams.The artist's figures found their indepedence on their honesty throughout a narrative approach which shows no interest inshape but on the contrary focuses on the substance.Thus he rakes up this eternal question in an inspired but in the same time disarmingly understandable manner. After being for several years an apprentice to a head artist of colour and design such as Alexanter Papaconstantinou,Costas Spiliotopoulos assimilated from this great master the elements that excited his interest and moved on to a purely personal work.His work indeed, beyond its obvious authenticiti, distinguishes for its radical nature. In these days, where everything seems to be impersonal,his choices of themes attest to an artist who fights his own battle for the kindest of human emotions.Within a world structured on principles of his own, he emphasizes the limits of his personal myth-making. Armed with the courage of his convictions, he resists to the temptation of easy impressions and he unfolds his expression in unpresedented directness based on his experience. Costas Spiliotopoulos abolishes space for by means of his vision, he seeks to wrestle with time.Without the slitest trace of hint, he brings out emotion as eternal, reminding us all that even reality can measure up to a dream.On the other hand, a dream neither obeys laws, as far as its expansion is concerned, nor has boundaries.It unfold in sacred paths, it ignores time and often it wipes out the basic principles of reason. The painting of Costas Spiliotopoulos guides us vividly in these fields, without any redundant assumption, in a catalytic way for our emotions and our intellectual faculties. It constitutes a relal, honest, inspired painting. For it is great painting. Many of his paintings exists in Greek collectors and all over the world. Ion Diamantopoulos (historian of art)