Books

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in both volume and quality, archive of the late Dimitris Mytaras, offered us the opportunity to include a plethora of unpublished information in our research, something which imbued this effort with added interest and significance.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

Catalogue of the exhibition Man Ray, Visages of the Woman held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 28 June to 27 September 2015.

The aspiration of the exhibition was to allow, through the selection of one hundred and fifty works by Man Ray, a first glance at his largely paradoxical but also very fertile relationship with the Woman.

The Woman, anonymous or celebrity, successful or unsung, muse or mistress, even the creation of the artist’s imagination is immortalized and elevated into the dominant figure by every means and way throughout his creative course.

The exhibition featured 150 works of all types: photographs, paintings, engravings, drawings, sculptures and ready-mades.

All the works are included in this fully illustrated, trilingual catalogue (Greek, English, French), accompanied by essays by Marie Koutsomallis-Moreau, curator of the exhibition.

*Trilingual edition (Greek, English, French)

Catalogue of the exhibition Sophia Vari held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 29 June to 28 September 2014.

Sophia Vari, an internationally renowned Greek artist with a multicultural artistic education, began her career as a figurative painter, eventually turning to sculpture in the mid-80s where she excelled. Vari remained independent throughout her career, never following any particular school of thought or practice, or joining any art movements, steering clear of established beliefs, and engaging in a bold and passionate quest for models she might be inspired from to create her very personal universe of forms.

Apart from a large and varied sample of her work in sculpture that was the exhibition's main axis, this tribute also included drawings, watercolours, oils, reliefs, and collages, as well as micro-sculptures.

Colour reproductions of all the works are included in this bilingual catalogue (Greek, English), published by SKIRA.

*Bilingual edition (Greek, English)

Catalogue of the exhibition Betty Ryan held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 6 April to 26 May 2014.

*Bilingual edition (Greek, English)