Books

Why can't we get up close to the works of art?
What is a collection?
What is a work of art used for?

More than 100 questions finally find their answers in this book dedicated to the Collection of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, and to museums in general as well!

Here's to curiosity, the most wonderful quality of all!

*Edition in French

12-page colouring book with paintings from the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation Collection.

A colouring adventure at the Museum!

*Quadrilingual edtion (Greek, English, French, Chinese)

Εdition accompanying the exhibition "Dico Byzantios, Abstraction + Figuration", held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, from 30 June 2019 to 22 September 2019.

*Bilingual edition (Greek, English)

Catalogue of the exhibition Dimitris Mytaras, From the Contemporary to the Timeless held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 1 July to 30 September 2018.

The main characteristic of Dimitris Mytaras’ painting is the coexistence of contradictory elements, which are skillfully intertwined to create the paradoxicality that runs through his entire fertile and creative artistic course. Poetry is expressed alongside violence, lyricism with brutality, pleasure with coarseness.

Apart from a distinguished and popular painter, he was also a poet, talented stage and costume designer, illustrator, designer of decorative representations and charismatic teacher. The aim of this tribute was to highlight both his thematic multilateralism and his technical diversity and dexterity.

Access to the impressive, in both volume and quality, archive of the late Dimitris Mytaras, offered us the opportunity to include a plethora of unpublished information in our research, something which imbued this effort with added interest and significance.

Colour reproductions of all 100 works that were presented in the exhibition are included in this bilingual catalogue (Greek, English), accompanied by essays by Marie Koutsomallis-Moreau, curator of the exhibition, a detailed illustrated chronology and poems by the artist.

*Bilingual edition (Greek, English)

Catalogue of the exhibition Nikos Engonopoulos, With the Colours of the Word and the Word of Colours held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 25 June to 1 October 2017.

Nikos Engonopoulos was a painter, a poet and a professor at the National Technical University. Three areas of activity, separated to some extent, but which enriched one another thanks to a prevailing common denominator: Engonopoulos’ immense, diverse and insatiable - over time – broad and wide-ranging education.

The aim of this dedicated exhibition was to highlight this manifold activity and the undisputed talent he demonstrated in everything he became involved in.

Colour reproductions of all 110 works that were presented in the exhibition are included in this bilingual catalogue (Greek, English), accompanied by well-researched texts, written by people with a deep knowledge of Engonopoulos’ work, as well as poems of the artist.

Essays have been contributed by:
- Kyriakos Koutsomallis, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation
- Marie Koutsomallis-Moreau, Head of Collection, Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation
- Sotiris Sorogas, Painter - Emeritus Professor at the National Technical University of Athens
- Thanassis Hatzopoulos, Poet - Psychoanalyst
- Katerina Perpinioti-Agazir, Art Historian

*Bilingual edition (Greek, English)

Catalogue of the retrospective exhibition George Zongolopoulos, Interminable Plenitude in the Vastness of Abstraction held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 19 June to 25 September 2016.

Although he was an accomplished handler of the brush and stylus, George Zongolopoulos bestowed himself to sculpture with an incessant passion, enthusiasm and dedication that brought universal recognition and established him as one of the most important sculptors in Modern Greek art.

Colour reproductions of all 107 works presented in the exhibition are included in this bilingual catalogue (Greek, English), accompanied by well-researched texts written by people with a deep knowledge of George Zongolopoulos’ work.

Essays contributed by:
- Kyriakos Koutsomallis, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation
- Nikos Theodoridis, President of the George Zongolopoulos Foundation
- Nikos Paissios
- Angelos Moretis
- Nikos Vatopoulos
- Marie Koutsomallis-Moreau
- Maro Kardamitsi-Adami
- Irene Strati

*Bilingual edition (Greek, English)