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Jannis Kounellis

By Eduardo Cicelyn
July 2006
Edizioni Electa
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
9788837045517
260 Pages, Illustrated
$87.50 Paper

OUT OF PRINT

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Kounellis's painting has gradually become sculptural and by 1963, the artist was using found elements in his paintings. Kounellis then began to use live animals in his art during the late 1960s; one of his best-known works included 11 horses installed in the gallery. He 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. Arte Povera was never an art simply to look at, but to experience with every sense, and this richly illustrated retrospective exemplifies the ways in which the Italian movement went beyond a Minimalist preoccupation with the visual apprehension of form and process as Jannis Kounellis is one of the most highly esteemed exponents of the movement.

This monograph offers a rare opportunity to fully experience the confrontation of Kounellis's bold works as they were intended.

Exhibition

Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina,
Italy - 22nd April -
18th September 2006


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