For the celebration commemorating the 400 year of Domenikos Theotokopoulos’ (El Greco) death, the State Museum of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg is hosting the exhibition of new works by Tripoli-born Greek artist, Nikos Floros. Inspired by El Greco, his mosaics The Resurrection and The Disrobing of Christ were unveiled on December 3. The two sculpture mosaics of monumental proportions were created of more than 10,000 aluminum cans; this gives them the otherworldly, transcendent and mysterious character of the works of El Greco.

"This marks the first time my work has gone on display inside a religious monument which is also a church, a place where people come to pray," the artist said. Theodoros Bizakis, Greek consul general in Saint Petersburg noted that it is one of the rare occasions in which Saint Isaac’s, is hosting a contemporary art show, which demonstrates that Russian people are interested in contemporary Greece.