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visits Russia along with other representatives of cultural and political circles in Greece and other
European countries. In 1954 he began his collaboration with the Karolos Koun Arts Theatre designing state sets and costumes for the production "Naked Masks", consisting of four one-act plays by Pirandello. Additionally, in the same year, he exhibited along with other Greek artists in Canada and in Belgrade. The coming year in 1955 he and his wife Aglaïa get divorced and two years following that he got elected professor of the painting workshop at The
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in Athens and submit decorative design which ended up being approved, with the commence of their execution at the same year.He later collaborated with Greek and foreign architects such as Sir Basil Spence and Antony Blee designing and decorating by that point a multitude of public buildings and
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Yiannis spent the next two years (from 1960 to 1961) producing various compositions for the Greek
National Tourist Organization (GNTO) which was to be incorporated into the architectural designs for a hotel in Florina, in the Mont Parnes Hotel and in the Okeanis restaurant at Vouliagmeni.
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private houses. Moreover he took part in the exhibition “Stage Design in Greece” which was organized by the French
Institute Students Association and designed the frontispiece for Odysseas Elytis’ poem “Axion Esti” published by the Ikaros Press, with whom he collaborated at the time.
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