Kostis Georgiou was born in 1956 in Thessalonica, a town thriving with life and activity, and the second port of Greece. After his secondary schooling in Athens, he went on a quest to find his identity. For six months he tried living in Sweden but missed the heat. He went to Florence to study stage design, and then returned to Athens where he went to Art College to study painting and sculpture under Pr. D Mytaras and Pr. D.Kokkonides. He finished his studies at the Royal College of Art in London under Pr. Peter de Francia.

After his wanderings, he decided to settle in Athens where he felt at home. From 1988 to 1991 he taught painting and stage design at the L.Stavrakos School of Cinema and worked for theatre and the Greek television company ERT. At the same time he continued to paint and sculpt. Soon this is all he did, devoting himself to his art, preferring his work as an artist to more lucrative activities at that time. It was a necessity for him to create and bring forth forms from his soul and being. He likes both painting and sculpture and has the incessant need to go from one to the other continuously. For him, they both express the same tension. They are not soft but have a declamatory style, majestically orchestrated, with bright, frank,unrelenting colours, the space inhabited by people and animals. This theatricality is doubtless due to Georgiou’s years of training and experience.

Recent pictorial works by the artist use the same artificial settings, breaking away from traditional methods of composition. Georgiou creates another universe where the onlooker can grasp the silent language of colour and form. His palette in much of his work, is reduced to primary colours and black, (considered to be the absence of colour yet used as one). This simple use of yellows, reds, blues and black, bring an emotional intensity to each stage, almost film-like, in his canvases. The spectator is invited to enter and participate in the action taking place. For example, works such as  Tempus, Elegia, Epiphanion, Gloria, Onar and Stabiswork onthree levels: the setting of the scene, the scene itself and in the semi-dark background where one guesses that something is happening.  Even more lively and interactive is the rather dark canvas Citizen which shows a diver. Here Georgiou brings us into his own thoughts. He considers that a creator is not an artist but someone who dives into deep waters to translate an original and indefinable work. He is one of those artists with an insatiable appetite for creation.

When he feels the intrinsic need to turn to sculpture, a means of changing medium, he is driven by the same passion, to reposition and open his paintings to other perspectives. He began sculpture when he was twenty-four years old and held his first three dimensional exhibition in 1986. Everything is created from beginning to the end in his studio. He is the only person who touches his sculptural pieces. He tries to master stainless steel, sheets of iron, aluminium, and more recently, bronze. He solders, hammers and paints. It is only for work in bronze that he refers to a founder. Today he makes new sculptures. They are conceived to become monumental works installed in towns, making the environment a more beautiful and pleasant place for the inhabitants. The three bronzes Aenon, Antidoron, Epiphanion are remarkably simple with great purity of line and a minimalist structure. In contrast, the Thesis and Stasis, types of strange, almost human, animals, transport us into a fantastical land. This is doubtless Georgiou’s way of transporting us into a new world.