The summer of 2023 will be full of artistic and visual art in Athens and on the island of Andros, giving the opportunity to the art-loving public to get to know aspects of both contemporary Greek art and French art of the 20th century.

In the month of August, the Museum of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation in Athens will dedicate its forthcoming temporary exhibition to the primary role of the multiple in modern and contemporary art. For this purpose, some ninety lithographs, engravings and ceramics from the Foundation’s Collection have been brought together, bearing the signatures of eight leading artists of the 19th and 20th centuries: Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Fernand Léger (1881-1955), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Georges Braque (1882-1954), Joan Miró (1893-1983) and Balthus (1908-2001).

The grouping of these works gives the viewer the opportunity to re-read their history through two perspectives. First, by examining them as a set of “memories bathed in dream” and then by leaning over each work individually, following the path of their creation, thus emphasizing at the same time their originality in relation to the rest of each artist’s output.

Visitors to the exhibition will be able to discover, among other things, the entire albums The Master of Drawing – Aristide Maillol, Lautrec’s Twelve Lithographs, Léger’s Circus, Hesiod’s The Theogony, illustrated (in Greek) by Braque, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, as imagined by Balthus. As for Matisse, Picasso and Miró, they demonstrate once again the decisive role they played in the development of printmaking and ceramics in the 20th century.

The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue (in Greek and in English), compiled by the exhibition curator Maria Koutsomalli-Moreau and published by the B&E Goulandris Foundation and edited by Mikri Arktos. It is enriched with a Glossary that includes all the technical terms of printmaking that are essential for a good understanding of the methods used, as well as biographical notes of the valuable collaborators who gave the artists the opportunity to excel in the art of multiples. Interspersed testimonials from artists, gallery owners and craftspeople complete this tribute to an entire field of art that unfortunately has yet to find the recognition it deserves.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

MEMORIES LOST IN THE DREAM The art of the multiple in the Collection of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation with works by Maillol, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, Léger, Picasso, Braque, Miró, Balthus

Curator of the exhibition: Maria Koutsomalli-Moreau, Collection Manager of the B&E Goulandris Foundation
Duration: August 5 – December 3, 2023
Opening hours: Wednesday-Thursday & Saturday-Monday 10.00- 18.00-21.00, Friday 10.00-20.00

Tuesday closed

Vassilis & Elizas Goulandris Foundation
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