"Beautiful Things Are Difficult": The Gallerist Taking Art to the Aegean

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Geneva gallerist Thea Montauti d'Harcourt Lyginos has staged "Melting Beauty," a summer exhibition featuring Sean Scully, Yinka Shonibare, and Leiko Ikemura inside a private home on the tiny Greek island of Antiparos — and it might be the art world's most atmospheric pop-up of the year.

On the terrace of a private home on Antiparos — a small, wind-scoured Cycladic island better known for its sea caves than its cultural programming — a bronze rabbit in a tented skirt gazes out across turquoise water. The sculpture, Good Rabbit (2018–24), is by Leiko Ikemura, and its presence here tells you everything about what Thea Montauti d'Harcourt Lyginos is trying to do.

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