Mantichora Print

Pliny described the "mantichora" in his Naturalis Historia (c. 77 AD) having relied on a faulty copy of Aristotle's natural history that contained the misspelling ("martikhoras"). Pliny also introduced the confused notion that the manticore might occur in Africa, because he had discussed this and other creatures (such as the yale) within a passage on Aethiopia but he also described the crocotta and the mantichora of Aethiopia together, and while the crocotta imitated the voices of men, the mantichora of Aethiopia too also mimicked human speech, with a voice like the pipe (panpipe, fistula) mixed with trumpet. Yiannis' subject matter is the essence of the world he live in: dystopia. Inevitably, every individual witnesses the devastation of modern society. Instead of paying tribute to nature, we opt in favor of worshiping materialism, forgetting our origin. He sees in his artwork the today’s crisis; He sees a nature that has sunk into the dystopia that human has imposed, remonstrating the contemporary world.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:9 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:14.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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