Publications

he aim of this colouring book is to introduce children, as well as art-loving adults, to original images from the Eastern European travellers’ accounts who visited Asia Minor, which is digitised and presented in our website “Travelogues“.

Presenting images from Asia Minor serves as a tribute to these long-lost cradles of Hellenism which was so abruptly displaced at 1922 and bring us closer to people and places of past centuries.

On the left-hand pages of the book you will find the original artwork and short texts on the author/artist and the theme depicted. Scanning the QR code, you will be directed to the digital source of the image, in “Travelogues”. On the right-hand pages, the pictures are reproduced in a simplified manner, which you are welcome to colour, creating your own piece of art!

Five years after the first and permanent exhibition of Dimitris Perdikidis’s (1922 – 1989) artworks at the premises of the Foundation in Piraeus, we have in hand his design notebooks which take us on his creative journey from 1959 to 1967. These notebooks – “A world in itself” – they open and take us to an era of reconstruction for the artist himself, during which he made an abstract work with his own originality and identity. Perdikidis’s designs include a poetic element with special charm, musicality and sensitivity and through them unfolds a grid of expressive ways that announces his later pioneering artistic developments.

The volume accompanied the temporary exhibition “Templon. Holy figures, invisible gates of faith, 20th and 21st century“, organized by the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation and MVN Consultants, which was hosted from 27 October 2017 to 24 March 2018 at the Museum of Byzantine Culture. The publication presents a concise catalog of exhibits and includes 30 scientific papers on templa, with material published for the first time. In addition, it contains 190 color photographs and 100 drawings.

The authors of the articles are: Dr. Jenny Albani, Michail Asfentagakis, Aimilianos Grekas, Dr. Nikolaos Graikos, Dr. Yannis Theocharis, Dr. Anastasia Kapandriti, Prof. Em. Maro Kardamitsi-Adami, Dr. Andromachi Katselaki, Dr. Harry Koutelakis, Arch. Dionysios Lykogiannis, Dr. Spyros Moschonas, George Mylonas, Maria Nanou, Dr. Eirini Panou, Dr. Elena Saenkova, Andreas Sambatakos, Stergios Stasinopoulos, Prof. George Tsigaras, Dr. Agathoniki Tsilipakou, Dr. Niki Tsironi, Eleni Veronika Farmakilidou, Dr. Ioannis Firiligkos, Dr. Christodoulos Chatzichristodoulou, Dr. Stamatios Chondrogiannis.

The catalogue presents the works of the painter Valias Semertzidis (1911-1983) which are permanently exhibited at the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation. Art historian Nikos Hatzinikolaou selected and edited the texts. Includes introductions by Panos Laskaridis, President of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation and by the Semertzidis family. Other authors are Christos Alexiou, Themistoklis D. Tsatsou, Nikos Hatzinikolaou. It also includes  excerpts from the conversations of Valias Semertzidis with Christos Alexiou and a timeline of the painter’s life by Konstantinos Papachristos.

The catalogue comprises the overall oeuvre of Dimitris Perdikidis, as this is presented in the permanent exhibition of the “Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation”. Designed and edited by photographer Maria Stefossi, it also includes texts by Panos Laskaridis, Chairman of the “Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation”, Manos Stefanidis, Professor of Art History of the University of Athens, Dimosthenis Kokkinidis, Emeritus Professor of the Athens School of Fine Arts, and of Leonidas and Denise Perdikidis. The exhibition curator and long-time researcher of Perdikidis’ work, Miguel Fernández Belmonte, discusses and analyses the works and oeuvre of this distinguished Diaspora painter.