Goulandris Museum prepping shows in Andros and Athens

The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation is getting ready to unveil "two different worlds," as collections director Marie Koutsomallis-Moreau described it at a recent press conference on the two shows being prepared for its Athens and Andros premises.

On the Cycladic island, the Goulandris Museum will be hosting a retrospective on Chronis Botsoglou, one of the most widely respected and influential voices in contemporary Greek art, who died last year at the age of 81. Titled "The Uncompromising Honest of Empathy," the show - running from July 2 to October 1 - comprises more than 100 drawings, pastels, oils, watercolors and sculptures. Curated by Koutsomallis-Moreau, it covers the years from 1953 to 2018, a period of more than 65 years of incredible productivity in what was a very fertile artistic career.

Botsoglou was born in 1941 in the northern Greek port city of...