George Kikotis Sculptor - giving breath to a lifeless material

Chara Theocharous

Art Historian, Municipal Gallery of Thessaloniki

Giorgos Kikotis is an internationally renowned artist with special sensitivity, talent, and innovative thinking. The sense he leaves in a sculpture is one of its kind and the movement that comes off his art together with all the emotions, create a unique experience. He works with difficult material with such experience like no other artist, digging out all the colours and reflections that together lead to a perfectly balanced sculpture. In his most impressive forms, his imagination creates images ranging from dynamism to light toys, from tension to tranquility, but always moving on the brink of surreal development.

Konstantinos Fotiadis

Emeritus Professor, University of Western Macedonia

Giorgos Kikotis has developed a great activity in the field of monumental sculptures with a rich portfolio that has been inspired by contemporary morphoplastic concerns. His art is impregnated by aesthetic excellence and his interests, focused on the human form, pass gradually through various morphological shapes that constantly reflect his concerns. The most renowned of his works are Kritikos Makedonomachos, Russian soldier, Katsantonis, National resistance monuments, busts of S. Kazantzidis, L. Iasonidis, G. Pantelakis, E. Generalis, I. Savvidis. Giorgos Kikotis does not forget his origin and that is why some of his art is dedicated to the genocide of the Greeks of Pontus and already a lot of monuments throughout different cities in the country highlight the significance of the genocide.