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The Frissiras Museum houses the private collection of its founder, Vlassis Frissiras. An attorney by profession but passionate about Art, Vlassis Frissiras has devoted a major part of his life to collecting works of art.

He starts collecting works by young Greek visual artists in 1978, with the resolute aim of putting together a collection made up exclusively of paintings centered on two axes: the human form and body, and representation, i.e. the figurative art that reinstates a method of painting which has been more or less marginalized by newer forms of art. In the 1990s his interest turns to European artists.

Today the Frissiras collection has 3,500 works of anthropocentric painting, including such important names as Peter Blake, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Paola Rego, Jean Rustin, Pat Andrea, Valerio Adami, Leo Golub, Dado, Mimo Paladino, Antonio Segui, Sam Szafran.

Visitors can thus come across a wide range of versions of the human body, from faithful representation to deconstruction through the aspects of tragedy and comedy, the real and the surreal, the sober and the sarcastic, protestation and submission, demand and resignation.