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Using pencils like a well-bristled brush and embroidering the paper with a little tempera colour, Yannis Metzikov, based on his personal yearlong study, has created more than 200 elaborate drawings of peoples and their traditional costumes, offering us a unique panorama of precious relics from the past of the Greek homeland. The figures are joined by twenty-three stories drawn from the coffers of his memory, carrying with them pieces of past lives, that narrate, with alternating awe and humour, tales of matchmaking and of wars, of deaths, marriages, births and murders…