Face to Face at Frissiras Museum

In case you are in Athens until September 30, grasp the opportunity to visit a very interesting painting exhibition titled Face to Face: The artists and the collector in Frissiras Museum, located in the amazing area of Plaka, below the Acropolis hill. The exhibition is an ambitious attempt to depict the extremely complex and peculiar relationship between the collector Vlassis Frissiras and the artists he has been related to in the past 40 years of his collecting activity through a series of 200 self-portraits of the artists and portraits of Vlassis Frissiras. The exhibition presents the dynamic web of deep human relations that are characterised by creative interaction, mutual respect, honest friendship and sometimes confrontation, which has empowered the creation of numerous exceptional works of art and the creation of unbreakable personal bonds. At the same time, an attempt is made to portray the psyche of Vlassis Frissiras, an enigmatic collector who has marked Greek Visual Arts of the last 40 years. From visitgreece