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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Tassos Mantzavinos: Me and the Dragon

Nov 7, 2019 – Jan 4, 2020
Koumpari 1, Athina 106 74, Greece

Tassos Mantzavinos returns to the Benaki museum, this time with a dragon. A year before Angelos Delivorrias—Benaki director for 41 years—passed away, he and Mantzavinos began orchestrating the details of this show. Mantzavinos has created images of man’s favorite mythical creature using “embroidery”— a hand-scraping and cutting technique that gives his surrealist constructions both immediacy and vulnerability. It’s an homage to his friend, Angelos. —E.C.

Courtesy of the Benaki Museum.