APOSTOLOS KILESSOPOULOS
	Fractals (constructions)
Fractals 2000 construction wire-threads-paper-cardboard-plastic material-acrylics, 100 x 120 x 100  cm
Fractals 1999 construction wire-plastic material-acrylics, 100 x 100 x 100  cm
Fractals 1999 construction wire-threads-paper-acrylics, 50 x 300 x 200 cm
	Colour is the factor which most often concerns us in Kilessopoulos' work. Only call to mind his blues, which direct the eye towards magical depths -though they are controllable depths, since they are never wholly dark; or his use of light, which has no specific source, but is omnipresent and often clashes dramatically with the dark. One should, however, never overlook the role of design in his paintings. It is no rare phenomenon for painters to sacrifice design to the enchantment and expressive powers of colour. Kilessopoulos, on the contrary, continually redoubles his efforts in this respect,  to the point where design appears to support even his most abstract compositions. This is an additional factor to convince us that he has not chosen the abstract as a refuge from any weaknesses of his own, but out of artistic necessity. This feature is in fact another aspect of his creativity, since good draughtsman ship, as he himself believes, means good organization, controlled progress, the gradual gaining of ground, and affirmation of the individual -all elements which refer us back to the social function of the work of art.  His forms have a protean character. They are malleable, continually taking on new shape. They are imbued with the very dynamism of life, which after a certain point seems to be transported into space so as to fecundate the processes of the universe. The antitheses between earth and sky, fire and water, light and dark, are metamorphosed a into universal drama.   Alkis Charalampidis
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