Costas Varotsos accepts the invitation of music composer and then vice-mayor of Athens Stavros Xarhakos to commission a sculptural intervention for the city of Athens. He creates the Runner for Omonia square, an artwork which upon its presentation became a matter of debate among the art critics and the audience.
Varotsos masters to capture a borderline instant of the Runner's motion and to produce a figure that impresses the momentum of everyday life and which determines its own passage through the circular Omonia square.