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Jannis Kounellis (Greek: Γιάννης Κουνέλλης; 23 March 1936 – 16 February 2017) was a Greek Italian artist based in Rome.[1] A key figure associated with Arte Povera, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.[1][2]

Jannis Kounellis
Jannis Kounellis
Born(1936-03-23)23 March 1936
Piraeus, Greece
Died16 February 2017(2017-02-16) (aged 80)
Rome, Italy
MovementArte Povera

Life and work


Kounellis was born in Piraeus, Greece in 1936.[3] He lived in Greece during the Second World War and Greek Civil War before he moved to Rome in 1956.

From 1960 to 1966, Kounellis went through a period of only exhibiting paintings. In some of his first exhibitions, Kounellis began stenciling numbers, letters, and words onto his canvases, often reflecting advertisements and signs seen on the street. In 1960 he began to introduce found sculptural objects such as actual street signs into his work, exhibiting at Galleria La Tartaruga. This same year he donned one of his stencil paintings as a garment and created a performance in his studio to demonstrate himself literally becoming one with his painting. This newfound convergence of painting, sculpture, and performance was Kounellis' way out of traditional art. By 1961 he began to paint on newspaper to reflect his feelings towards modern society and politics.[4] From 1963, Kounellis introduced found objects in his artworks, among them live animals but also fire, earth, burlap sacks, and gold. He replaced the canvas with bed frames, doorways, windows or simply the gallery itself. Kounellis' work from the 1980s, which also consisted of sculptures and performances using unusual materials, traveled all over Europe. In 1974, he performed with Edward Kienholz, Wolf Vostell and other artists in Berlin at the ADA – Aktionen der Avantgarde.[5] His work has become integral to numerous renowned, international museums' collections.[6]


Arte Povera


In 1967, Kounellis became associated with Arte Povera, a movement theorized by curator Germano Celant as a major shift from work on flat surfaces to installations. Kounellis participated in the exhibition 'Arte Povera – e IM Spazio' at the La Bertesca Gallery in Genoa curated by Celant, which brought together artists whose work was concerned with the space between art and life, and nature and culture. Examples of artists who substantiated this basis of Arte Povera as a movement include Alighiero Boetti, Luciano Fabro, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali and Emilio Prini.[7] To solidify the movement, Celant curated yet another group show, 'Arte Povera', which was exhibited at the De' Foscherari gallery in Bologna in 1968 with similar artists. In the same year Kounellis exhibited 'Senza titolo (Untitled)', which consisted of raw wool, rope and a wooden structure all leaning against a wall. Finally, Kounellis was also included in 'RA3 Arte Povera + Azioni povere' which was organized by Marcello Rumma and curated by Celant.[8]

In 1967, Kounellis installed "live birds in cages along with rose-shaped, cloth cut-outs pinned to canvas" alongside his painting. Through this shift in his work, "Kounellis was more interested in anarchical freedom from linguistic norms and conventional materials. The space of the gallery and the exhibition site in general were transformed into a stage where real life and fiction could join in a suspension of disbelief."[9] The viewers became part of the scene of these living natural sources of energy within the gallery space. He continued his involvement with live animals later in 1969, when he exhibited twelve living horses, as if they were cars, in the Galleria l'Attico's new location in an old garage in Via Beccaria. Gradually, Kounellis introduced new materials, such as propane torches, smoke, coal, meat, ground coffee, lead, and found wooden objects into his installations. He also looked beyond the gallery environment to historical (mostly industrial) sites. In 1997, Kounellis installed thirteen wardrobes and two doors that were sealed in lead along a scaffolding ledge that blocked the entry to a central hall. In 1968, in an interview by Marisa Volpi. Kounellis stated that incidental adjustments are certain as aspects that can indicate the human liberty of life.[10]


Exhibitions



Selected solo exhibitions



Arte Povera group shows



International exhibitions


Kounellis participated in many international exhibitions, including the Biennale of Paris (1971),[11] Documenta (1972,[11] 1977, 1982), the Venice Biennale (1972,[3] 1976, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1993, and 2011[3]), the Istanbul Biennial (1993), and the Biennale of Sydney (2008). His work has also been exhibited in many museums and institutions such as the Kunstmuseum in Bern, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, The Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid,[3] and the Neue National gallery in Berlin.[12] In 1994, Kounellis held an exhibition titled Ionion, in which he displayed his work on a boat docked in his town of birth in Piraeus, Greece. He later curated another exhibition that on another ship called Apollo in 1973 as an addition to "Ionion".[13]


Later works and life


In October 2009, Kounellis exhibited many works at Tate Modern Gallery in London, United Kingdom. Jonathan Jones of The Guardian newspaper noted that his "Dry-stone walling, sacks of grain and rice, and a painting that includes part of the score of St John Passion by JS Bach, bring a sense of real life, organic and ancient, into the museum."[14]

On 16 February 2017, Kounellis died at the Villa Mafalda hospital in Rome.[3]

His estate is represented by Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York/Rome and Sprovieri, London.


References


  1. "Jannis Kounellis – Biography". Guggenheim Museum. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 15 November 2007.
  2. Arte Povera artist Jannis Kounellis has died, aged 80 Archived 17 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Stoilas, Helen (17 February 2017). "Arte Povera artist Jannis Kounellis has died, aged 80". The Art Newspaper. Archived from the original on 17 February 2017.
  4. Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn. Arte Povera. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1999. 251. Print.
  5. ADA – Aktionen der Avantgarde. medienkunstnetz.de
  6. Jannis Kounellis. guggenheim.org
  7. Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn, ed. (2005). Arte Povera (Repr. in paperback. ed.). Berlin: Phaidon. ISBN 0714845566.
  8. Bellini, Andrea (March 2007). "Jannis Kounellis". Flash Art (International Edition) (40): 112–115.
  9. Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn, ed. (2005). Arte Povera (Repr. in paperback. ed.). Berlin: Phaidon. p. 32. ISBN 0714845566.
  10. Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn, ed. (2005). Arte Povera (Repr. in paperback. ed.). Berlin: Phaidon. ISBN 978-0-7148-4556-2.
  11. Duponchelle, Valérie (17 February 2017). "Jannis Kounellis, la mort d'un poète de l'Arte povera". Le Figaro (in French).
  12. Kounellis at the Guggenheim Museum
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  14. Jones, Jonathan (19 May 2009) Arte Povera makes history come alive at Tate Modern, The Guardian

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На других языках

[de] Jannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis (griechisch Γιάννης Κουνέλλης, * 23. März 1936 in Piräus; † 16. Februar 2017 in Rom) war ein in Italien lebender griechischer Künstler. Der Mitbegründer der Arte-Povera-Bewegung gilt als einer der international bedeutendsten zeitgenössischen griechischen Künstler.
- [en] Jannis Kounellis

[es] Jannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis (El Pireo, Grecia; 23 de marzo de 1936-Roma, Italia; 16 de febrero de 2017)[1] fue un artista contemporáneo griego y uno de los más destacados exponentes del Arte Povera (del italiano arte pobre), movimiento artístico de naturaleza crítica que en la década de 1960 supuso un cambio radical al trasladar el arte de las superficies planas hacia las instalaciones y por el uso de materiales naturales y de desecho. En sus obras utiliza objetos, entre ellos animales vivos, fuego, tierra, tela de saco u oro. Cambió el marco de sus cuadros por marcos de camas, puertas, ventanas o utilizó los propios edificios de las galerías de arte y de instalaciones industriales como marco para su obra. Por este medio, busca conectar el arte con la naturaleza, la sociedad y la actualidad.

[fr] Jannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis, né le 23 mars 1936 au Pirée en Grèce et mort le 16 février 2017 à Rome en Italie[1], est un peintre, sculpteur et professeur d'université grec puis italien et l'un des artistes représentant de l'arte povera.

[it] Jannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis (in greco: Γιάννης Κουνέλλης; Il Pireo, 23 marzo 1936 – Roma, 16 febbraio 2017) è stato un pittore e scultore greco naturalizzato italiano, esponente di primo piano di quella che il critico Germano Celant ha definito "arte povera"[1].

[ru] Кунеллис, Яннис

Яннис Кунеллис (греч. Γιάννης Κουνέλλης / итал. Jannis Kounellis; 23 марта 1936, Пирей, Греция — 16 февраля 2017, Рим, Италия[5]) — итальянский художник греческого происхождения, один из создателей и главных представителей арте повера.


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