Tsanko Lavrenov & Mexican Art Exhibitions

Plovdiv


For something completely different, this time-warp 1846 house has displays of 1970s Mexican woodcuts, serigraphs and copies of pre-Columbian art downstairs (a gift to the communist state in 1981), and paintings by local artist Tsanko Lavrenov upstairs.


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