Jannis Kounellis
Three decades after they last exhibited side by side, David Hammons and Jannis Kounellis are reunited in a landmark exhibition Spanning works from the late 1950s to today, the exhibition highlights a striking dialogue between two artists who, despite coming from vastly different cultural and artistic traditions, share a deeply …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Jannis Kounellis (23/3/1936-16/2/2017). Kounellis worked initially in Rome, where he was settled and studied, …
Born in 1936 in Piraeus, Jannis Kounellis settled in Rome in 1956, where he studied in the Academy of Fine Arts and …
Jannis Kounellis played a central role in the Italian Arte Povera movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and has had a broad …
Jannis Kounellis, was one of the leading figures in the Arte Povera Movement, he had abandoned painting as a medium and had …
Jannis Kounellis made a highly distinctive contribution to one of the most provocative art movements in postwar Europe. As a pioneer of …
The monograph on one of the most important artists of the twentieth century – a key figure in Arte Povera. With 120 …
Jannis Kounellis (Piraeus 23/3/36-Rome 16/2/17) is one of the major figures of Arte Povera. Today he looks back at a career spanning …
“The ghosts make the Painting…Without ghosts, there would be no painting or painting would be stationary”–Jannis Kounnellis
“The vertical line is the only way to communicate with the universe”, Jannis Kounellis On the occasion of posts and suggestions …
Jannis Kounellis was born in Piraeus, Greece in 1936. World War II and the civil war (1946-49) were backdrops to his childhood. …
For the 20th anniversary of the death of Heiner Müller, the Jannis Kounellis and the director Theodoros Terzopoulos, both friends and collaborators …
In 1956 Jannis Kounellis moved to Rome and enrolled in the Accademia di Belle Arti. While still a student he had his …
Much has been said and written about Jannis Kounellis’ involvement with the Arte Povera Movement. His iconic works encompassing the objet trouvé …
Some works of Jannis Kounellis have made history, such as his transformation in 1969 of the Roman gallery L’Attico into horse stables …
Jannis’s Kounellis work stood out from the beginning for its search for a new kind of spatiality. The abandonment of a traditional …
