They come to the V. & E. Goulandris Museum in Andros and Athens
“The Victory of Samothrace” of Yv Kline, “The bench” of Nicky de Saint-Falthe oil painting “Sail and pines” of Paul Siniacthe “Landscape of Saint-Tropez at dusk” by Henri Matisse and “The farm (evening)” of Henry-Edmond Cross are some of the works that we will have the opportunity to see in the next two years in his museum Vassilis and Elizas Goulandris Foundation in Pagrati. The promising exhibition program for their museums in Andros and Athens, announced earlier today and extending until 2024, embraces the light and color of the great European modernists but also the modern creation, domestic and the Greek Diaspora, through tributes that aspire . to be heard on the international art agenda.
“International exhibitions have many lovers and it is not easy at the moment to stabilize the works of an exhibition” Answering a question from Athens Voice about what arrivals to expect in Athens, the General Director of the Foundation, Kyriakos Koutsomallis. He clarified, however, that the important legacy of the B. & E. collection Goulandri gives the Foundation the opportunity to negotiate with important museums of external lending of works through and their own contribution to other exhibitions. It is characteristic that the “Liomazoma” of Gog soon returns from the prestigious Amsterdam Museum where he had traveled for a related exhibition, while the famous “Grasshopper” of Mirρό in 2023 will participate in Guggenheim’s tribute to Bilbao for the years of the Catalan artist.
The exhibitions for the period 2022-2024 in the museums of the V. & E. Goulandris Foundation
So what can we expect at their venues in Athens and Andros? Coordinated with the 100th anniversary of the uprooting of the Hellenism of Ionia from its hearths but also with the three years since the opening of the Athenian museum, the exhibition «Fotis Kontoglou and his influence on the younger ones “ proposes a bipolar tribute, as pointed out by Kyriakos Koutsomallis. «Two exhibitions, that is, in a concise presence in the spirit of the subtitle “From today to yesterday with a view to tomorrow” ».
In the first part, the aim is to highlight the cultural and intellectual contribution of the prominent creators of the Generation of the ’30s in the field of fine arts and Letters during the 20th century, while in the second part, the aim is to highlight the influences received by young people from his students. . Nikos Eggonopoulos and Giannis Tsarouchis but also artists like Moralis, Loukopoulos, Vourloumis, Kopsidis, Karousos, Papadelis, Χοχλιδάκης and Xynopoulos. In the building on Eratosthenous Street we expect to see 135 works by 36 artists (and living) from 52 organizations and individuals.
The winter of 2023 is dedicated to an important, despite the ephemerality of his life (1960-1963), French art movement. «Neorealism as a pioneering movement “ curated by Maria Koutsomalli, hoping to offer a note of optimism, includes works by artists who either during the composition or a little later signed the relevant Manifesto in 1960 and despite their heterogeneity were connected in the context of a new sociological view of the real. Its monochromes Yv Klinetheir worn posters Raymond Haynes and Jean Villeleglehis kinetic sculptures Jean Tengelihis compressions Arman and his Caesartheir plastic joints Martial Raysse and Christ will have their own place in this proposal, as well as its colorful sensual compositions Nicky de Saint-Fal and their neo-realist proposals Gerard Deschamps, François Dufren and Mimo Rotela that highlight the urban space with the means offered by technology.
The museum of Andros next summer that takes us to the visual universe of the painter, sculptor, engraver and great teacher Botsoglou yearwho recently passed away “Leaving a big gap in the space of the metaphysical existential Giacometer dimension of painting”according to Kyriakos Koutsomallis.
The return to Athens in the fall of 2023 will be done with «Works on paper from the Collection of the Goulandris Foundation » in order to enjoy this aspect of the artist submission, among the great ones are: Toulouse-Lautrec (12 of his lithographs will be presented), Mayol, Brack (entire Theogony of), Leze (the Circus), Miro, Matisse and Picasso. Many of them belong to albums that will be presented for the first time in their entirety to the Greek public.
Our mind, however, is already traveling to the winter of 2024 which through the works of famous painters Neo-Impressionism (from museums in France, Germany, Great Britain, Luxembourg and Monaco) a window will open in the colors of the Mediterranean. Compositions created by Πωλ Σινιάκ in the French south, Venice and Istanbul, but also their works Maximilien Luce,Théo Van Rysselberghe, Henri Matisse, Charles Camus and Henri Mangen, from the period 1892-1914, they come to highlight these “Mathematicians of art”as characterized by the curator Maria Koutsomalli, who sought “To further enhance the color lyricism and give extra fullness in Impressionism “.
A Greek from the Diaspora closes the planning for the next two years. The Berne resident, Nakis Panagiotidis is known for its Arte Povera approach. He was, after all, a friend of Giannis Kounellis and in his compositions he chooses to utilize poor materials. “Which time wants to leave on the sidelines”. In Athens we are waiting for a flashback to his artistic career that includes works that the artist creates during this period.
“Shaping the intangible”: the first images from the exhibition of Alexandra Athanasiadis this summer in Andros
The next inauguration, however, comes on July 3 at Modern Art Museum in Chora of Andros with Alexandra Athanasiadis to unfold in a thematic exhibition narrative four decades of artistic course, from her first childhood works until today.
It all starts – where else? -, her workshop and the workbench on which she stacks tools, materials (scattered fragments of wood, metal and paper) but also works, finished and unfinished. The shores, from where she draws the raw material for her creations, could not be absent from this tribute that takes place, after all, in the Cyclades.
Going down a level in space, however, we promise that we will find ourselves in front of an unknown aspect of its creative course: the primary role of abstraction in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Two sculpted birds in white and black coexist with the painting. unity «Rocks»frame-free works, made in London and New York, most of which meet the Greek public for the first time, highlight the influence of sculptural titans such as Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, and at the same time predispose for the evolution of its “writing”.
Characteristic sections of Athanasiadis’s work come to unfold the sequel. Her work on Cavafy poetry, in an installation that “She needed a space of her own to flourish as there is huge graffiti in the same room”, as Maria Koutsomalli explains. The world of horses that express what the artist describes as ‘Two pieces of self [της]. The part that puts its head down and goes ahead and does what it should and the part that is unruly and does not accept “.
And, of course, the human body, which is the central axis of her art through the sections with the chests, the Victories and the self-portraits. Female and male figures, made of wood, metal and paper, inspired by mythology, she, her father or her husband, coexist expressing, according to the curator, “All sides, even the darkest, of her work. Here, her experience penetrates the material and touches us with disarming honesty, which is always characterized by sensitivity and delicacy “.