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Things we should start to romantisize: the silver shining of the olive trees in the sun

After seeing Van Ghogh's painting in Goulandris Art Gallery, no olive tree was ever the same for me!

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Goulandris Art Museum Celebrates First Anniversary

In its first year of operation, despite the harsh challenges brought on by the pandemic, the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation has managed to thrive and to carry out its founders’ vision of creating a museum in Athens that would give audiences of all kinds the opportunity to connect with the art that its founders so loved.

On October 4, to mark its first anniversary, the Foundation invites members of the public to visit, free of charge, and to enjoy a day especially conceived for the occasion. The program includes an exhibition of photographs by Christophoros Doulgeris entitled “In the Making,” which charts the Foundation’s construction.

Online reservation is required to participate in the celebrations. To avoid overcrowding in the building, visitors will be given a specific timeslot for their visit. The museum will offer extended opening hours, from 10:00 to 20:00, to facilitate access to as many people as possible. The use of face masks will be required throughout the whole visit.

Entry tickets will also count as registration in the “One Year at the Museum” competition, which offers a range of attractive prizes, such as membership packages, private guided tours and much more.

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Goulandris Museum, Pagklrati, Athens Greece

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The Richness of Greece’s Flora, as Captured by Niki Goulandris

Few people loved Greek nature as much as the late Niki Goulandris. In 1964, she and her husband, Angelos Goulandris, founded the Goulandris Natural History Museum, thus establishing an important center for ecological research and environmental education in Greece. Being an excellent botanical painter herself, she captured the beauty of Greek flora on paper in numerous ways.

The anthology “Wild Flowers of Greece” is perhaps the best example of her work, first published in 1968. Eleven years later, a renewed and enriched version of the book was published by Militos Editions, and it remains a timeless and precious source of knowledge, as well as aesthetics, in regard to the richness of Greek flora.

In the book’s foreword, Goulandris described capturing the flowers’ shapes and colors as a sensory, spiritual experience, so much so that she could recall the fresh aromas emanating from the flowers as she was drawing them.

She expressed her hope that the book would be an incentive for readers to seek these flowers in their own environments – where they have been growing for thousands of years. The book’s pages are filled with a total of 130 full-scale (book size: 27x37cm) colorful representations of Greek wildflowers, each accompanied by a short, informative text.

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New modern art museum set to launch

Preparations are under way for the October 2 grand opening of the new Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation Museum in the central Athens district of Pangrati. Following the radical makeover of the 7,250 square meter building at 13 Eratosthenous Street, the public will soon be able to admire the foundation’s significant collection of modern art, which includes pieces by Picasso, Degas, Monet, Van Gogh, Miro, Giacometti and other greats, as well as celebrated Greek artists. There is also a room dedicated to 18th century French furniture and objets d’art, a library and a cafe. Photo by Alexandros Vlachos/ANA-MPA

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Goulandris Museum, Pagkrati, Athens Greece

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2019 brings a great new addition to Athens’ art museum scene: the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation will open its gates to the public on Wednesday, 2 October. The museum’s mission, as envisioned by its founders, is for everyone to have access to unique works of art created by some of the world’s most important modern artists, including many Greek masters.

The new museum has been designed with the purpose of housing the founders’ private art collection, featuring rare works by artists such as Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Monet, Degas, Rodin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Picasso, Braque, Léger, Miró, Giacometti, Balthus, and others, as well as works by Greek modernists including Parthenis, Bouzianis, Vassiliou, Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, Tsarouchis, Moralis and Tetsis. Among the exhibits is an extremely valuable 16th painting by El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos).

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