Books

Catalogue of the exhibition Isamu Noguchi, Between East and Westheld at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 27 June to 29 September 2010.

The exhibition featured a total of 76 works, including 42 sculptures, 34 drawings and preliminary sketches, and a series of photographs documenting stage sets designed by the artist for various performances, as well as public works realized across Europe, Asia and the U. S.

Colour reproductions of all the works are included in this informative catalogue, accompanied by essays by:
- Kyriakos Koutsomallis, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation
- Jenny Dixon, Director of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York
- Bonnie Rychlak, Curator at The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York
- N. P. Paisios
- Karin Higa, Adjunct Senior Curator of Art at the Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
- Stephen Antonakos

*Edition in 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in both volume and quality, archive of the late Dimitris Mytaras, offered us the opportunity to include a plethora of unpublished information in our research, something which imbued this effort with added interest and significance.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 exhibition Paul Delvaux and Antiquity held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 28 June to 27 September 2009, and the Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels from 23 October 2009 to 31 January 2010.

The exhibition consisted of 60 works (oil paintings and drawings) from the collections of institutions such as the Delvaux Foundation, Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique and other important museums, foundations, as well as private and public collections in Europe and the United States.

Colour reproductions of all the works are included in this informative catalogue, accompanied by essays by:
- Michel Draguet, Director of the Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
- Kyriakos Koutsomallis, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation
- Takis Theodoropoulos
- Paul Delvaux
- Jean Clair
- Sophie Basch
- Philippe Jockey
- Alexandre Farnoux

*Edition in French

Catalogue of the retrospective exhibition Alberto Giacometti held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 28 June to 6 September 1992.

110 works (sculptures, oil paintings and drawings), from museums, foundations, galleries and private collections from Switzerland, France, England and the U.S.A, are included in this fully illustrated, bilingual catalogue (Greek, French), accompanied by comments about the artist, an interview by Balthus to K. Koutsomallis on Giacometti’s work, chronology, as well as selected bibliography.

Essays contributed by:
- Herbert A. Cahn, Professor at the University of Heidelberg
- Kyriakos Koutsomallis, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation

*Bilingual edition (Greek, French)

Catalogue of the group exhibition Lines of Sight, Milestones in the History of Photography held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 29 June to 21 September 1997.

The exhibition presented the history of photography through the works of the best-known representatives of the various photographic genres (landscape, portrait, war photography, ethnographic photography, science and experimental photography, photojournalism, fashion), including pictures by pioneers of the Greek photography scene.

130 photographs by 26 famous photographers (Nadar, Beato, Marey, Atget, Demachy, the Lumière brothers, Curtis, Casasola, Ghisoland, Rodtchenko, Kertész, Lartigue, Sudek, Cartier-Bresson,Doisneau, Capa, Smith, Giacomelli, Moon, Salgado, Papaioannou, Nelly's, Meletzis, Harissiadis, Balafas, Manos) are included in this fully illustrated, trilingual catalogue (Greek, English, French), accompanied by short introductory texts for each photographer, biographies of all artists, chronology of important turning points in the history of photography and a glossary of photographic terms.

Essays contributed by:
- Robert Delpire, Former Director of the French National Centre of Photography
- Fanny Constantinidou, Curator of the photographic archives of the Benaki Museum
- Kyriakos Koutsomallis, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation

*Trilingual edition (Greek, English, French)