December 26, 2013

PAINTER JANNIS KOUNELLIS 1936




ARTIST JANNIS KOUNELLIS




INSTALLATION SHOT 




UNTITLED 1996
Cupboards, Steel Cable, Large Scales
Dimensions Vary




UNTITLED 2012
Iron, Steel, Coats and String
Dimensions: 124 x 874 x 44 cm




INSTALLATION SHOT
Jannis Kounellis: Santa Fe, Isola Madre, Isole Borromeo,
Lake Maggiore, Stresa, IT




UNTITLED 2011
Mixed media on iron plate
Dimensions: 3 x (200 x 180 cm) et dimensions variables
© Galerie Lelong



SANS TITRE 2002 - GALERIE LELONG




UNTITLED 2005
Mixed Media
Dimensions Object: 1001 x 709 x 157 mm
Collection: Tate / National Galleries of Scotland





UNTITLED 2011
Litho + Sleeve of a Coat
Dimensions: 75 x 104 cm
© Galerie Lelong










UNTITLED ( SCISSORS ) 2004
Metal, Glass and Scissors
Dimensions Object: 650 x 449 x 138 mm
Collection: Tate / National Galleries of Scotland




UNTITLED ( SEWING MACHINE ) 2004
Metal, Glass, Sewing Machine and Coat
Dimensions Displayed: 705 x 498 x 210 mm
Collection: Tate / National Galleries of Scotland




UNTITLED ( HAIR ) 2004
Metal, Glass and Hair
Dimensions Object: 652 x 450 x 140 mm
Collection: Tate / National Galleries of Scotland




( NO TITLE ) FROM KOUNELLIS 1999
Etching, Drypoint and Aquatint on Paper
DimensionsSupport: 355 x 387 mm
Collection: Tate





NO TITLED 1999
Etching, Drypoint and Aquatint on Paper
Dimensions Support: 355 x 387 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 2001




NO TITLED 1999
Etching, Drypoint and Aquatint on Paper
Dimensions Support: 355 x 387 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 2001




NO TITLED 1999
Etching, Drypoint and Aquatint on Paper
Dimensions Support: 355 x 387 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 2001




NO TITLED 1999
Etching, Drypoint and Aquatint on Paper
Dimensions Support: 355 x 387 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 2001




NO TITLED 1999
Etching, Drypoint and Aquatint on Paper
Dimensions Support: 355 x 387 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 2001




UNTITLED 1987
Lead, Wax, and Steel
Dimensions: 200.7 x 180.5 x 19 cm
Credit Line: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift,
Annika Barbarigos, 1987










UNTITLED ( SACK WITH Z ) 2001
Metal, Glass, Burlaq Sack and Coal
Dimensions Displayed: 650 x 450 x 140 mm
Collection: Tate / National Galleries of Scotland




UNTITLED ( KNIFE & TRAIN ) 2002
5 Knives, 2 Trains, Metal and Glass Box
Dimensions Object: 530 x 398 x 98 mm
Collection: Tate / National Galleries of Scotland




NO TITLED 1999
Etching, Drypoint and Aquatint on Paper
Dimensions Support: 355 x 387 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 2001




NO TITLED 1999
Etching, Drypoint and Aquatint on Paper
Dimensions Support: 355 x 387 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 2001




NO TITLED 1999
Etching, Drypoint and Aquatint on Paper
Dimensions Support: 355 x 387 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 2001




UNTITLED 2005
Iron, Paper, Ink, Burlap Sack, Coal
Dimensions: 200 × 180 × 40 cm




UNTITLED 1986
Steal, Lead and Coal
Dimensions: 1454 × 243 × 20 cm




UNTITLED 2011
Steel, Catrame on Canvas, Cloth
Dimensions: 200 × 180 cm





FUMO DI PIETRA IV - 1992
Lithograph
Dimensions: 61 x 80 cm
© Galerie Lelong




UNTITLED 2012
Oil Pastel on Paper
Dimensions: 200 × 210 × 5 cm





FUMO DI PIETRA II – 1992
Lithograph
Dimensions: 60.5 x 80cm
© Galerie Lelong




INSTALLATION SHOT - BLAINSOUTHERN GALLERIE




INSTALLATION SHOT - BLAINSOUTHERN GALLERIE






INSTALLATION SHOT
 Jannis Kounellis Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, IT






UNTITLED 2013
Steel and Rope
Dimensions: 100 × 210 cm




UNTITLED 1990
Mine Car, Jute Sacks, Coal
Dimensions Vary











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JANNIS KOUNELLIS
Jannis Kounellis was born in 1936 in Piraeus, Greece. In 1956 Kounellis moved to Rome and enrolled in the Accademia di Belle Arti. While still a student he had his first solo show, titled L’alfabeto di Kounellis, at the Galleria la Tartaruga, Rome, in 1960. The artist exhibited black-and-white canvases that demonstrated little painterliness; on their surfaces he stencilled letters and numbers.
Influenced by Alberto Burri as well as Lucio Fontana, whose work offered an alternative to the Expressionism of Art Informel, Kounellis was looking to push painting into new territory. He was inspired, too, by the work of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, and by the earlier abstractions of Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian. Kounellis’s painting would gradually become sculptural and by 1963 the artist was using found elements in his paintings. Kounellis began to use live animals in his art during the late 1960s; one of his best-known works included 12 horses installed in the gallery. Kounellis not only questioned the traditionally pristine, sterile environment of the gallery, but also transformed art into a breathing entity. His diverse materials from the late 1960s onward included fire, earth, and gold, sometimes alluding to his interest in alchemy. Burlap sacks were introduced in homage to Burri, though they were stripped of the painting frame and exhibited as objects in space. Additional materials have included bed frames, doorways, windows, and coat racks. People, too, began to enter his art, adding a performative dimension to his installations. In the 1970s and 1980s Kounellis continued to build his vocabulary of materials introducing smoke, shelving units, trolleys, blockaded openings, mounds of coffee grounds, and coal, as well as other indicators of commerce, transportation, and economics. These diverse fragments speak to general cultural history, while they simultaneously combine to form a rich and evocative history of meaning within Kounellis’s oeuvre.
In 1967, Kounellis was included in an important group exhibition entitled Arte povera e IM spazio at the Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa. Curator Germano Celant coined the term Arte Povera to refer to the humble materials, sometimes described as detritus, which Kounellis and others were employing at the time to make their elemental, anti-elitist art. Kounellis had his first solo show in New York in 1972 at the Sonnabend Gallery. During the 1970s and 1980s his work was shown in many exhibitions; among these was a solo show in the early 1980s that travelled to several museums in Europe, including the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Obra Social, Caja de Pensiones, Madrid; the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; and the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. In 1985, the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, mounted an important exhibition of the artist’s production. The following year, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, staged a retrospective exhibition of Kounellis’s work; the show travelled to the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal. In 1994, Kounellis installed a selection of more than thirty years of his work in a boat called Ionion and docked this floating retrospective in his home port of Piraeus.
In the twenty-first century, Kounellis has developed an increasingly architectural vocabulary, creating labyrinthine environments that manipulate the exhibition space, the viewer’s experience, and the materials that have articulated the artist’s oeuvre for decades. Kounellis has in the last decade been honoured with major exhibitions at Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome (2002), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina in Naples (2006), Neuenational Galerie in Berlin (2008), Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (2010) Today Art Museum, Beijing (2011), National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow (2011) and Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens (2012), among others. In 2012, Blain|Southern, Berlin staged a solo exhibition of new works by the artist made in direct response to the gallery’s vast, post-industrial space. The artist lives and works in Rome.
http://www.blainsouthern.com/artists/jannis-kounellis