The acceptance of solitude and its employment as another secret power of communication, is one of the main features of the art of Mantzavinos. This time the painter «amuses» loneliness through the game. In the bright colors of the impeller that moves with the wind direction and symbolizes the joy of life, Mantzavinos opposes the black models of hermit. "The painter has all the features of the hermit. It's like he wants to discipline at sirens. He is experiencing this contradiction and sometimes should renounces life itself, "says the author.

Through his love for the folk textiles, shows for the first time on Skoufa Gallery paintings in a series of frontal, hanging from the ceiling canvases, giving them position in space and not just on the surface of the wall. The whole process of painting operation in Mantzavinos work resembles an exercise, which involves the introversion, the desolation. To show what the painter, made a comparison with the classic game of his youth, the Snakes and Ladders. The curator of the exhibition George Mylonas states that the purpose of Mantzavinos, game is to reach high, to ascend on a building that looks like a temple: the Church is the ego of the artist and the art of making has all the characteristics of the ritual of initiation.