Jannis Kounellis Art
Greek, 1936-2017
Jannis Kounellis was the major exponent of the Italian art movement Arte Povera in the 20th century. Kounellis was born in Piraeus, Greece, in 1936. He lived in Greece during the Second World War and Greek Civil War before he moved to Rome in 1956.
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Photo Lithograph Jannis Kounellis Arte Povera Italian Avant Garde Etching
By Jannis Kounellis
Located in Surfside, FL
'Lo faro il litterato tutta la vita'
Photo Lithography on rag paper
hand signed lower right in pencil: Kounellis
numbered 37/90.
Provenance: The Collection of Ileana Sonnabend (Mrs L...
Category
1960s Arte Povera Jannis Kounellis Art
Materials
Lithograph
Elettra, Music Score Lithograph Jannis Kounellis Arte Povera Italian Avant Garde
By Jannis Kounellis
Located in Surfside, FL
It depicts a musical score or music notes.
Offset Lithography on rag paper
hand signed lower right in pencil: Kounellis
numbered 37/90.
Provenance: The Collection of Ileana Sonnabend...
Category
1960s Arte Povera Jannis Kounellis Art
Materials
Lithograph
Never-Ending Spiral - Mixed Media by Jannis Kounellis - 2008
By Jannis Kounellis
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Yannis Kounellis in occasion of the Olympic Games of Beijing, China, in 2008.
Hand signed and numbered, perfect condition.
This work is from the portfolio Th...
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Early 2000s Abstract Jannis Kounellis Art
Materials
Mixed Media
I will be a Writer - Lithograph by Jannis Kounellis - 1970s
By Jannis Kounellis
Located in Roma, IT
I will be a writer is an original modern artwork realized by Jannis Kounellis. Photo-lithograph, hand retouched.
Hand signed by the artist.
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1970s Modern Jannis Kounellis Art
Materials
Lithograph
Never-Ending Spiral - Mixed Media by Jannis Kounellis - 2008
By Jannis Kounellis
Located in Roma, IT
Never-Ending Spiral, Olympic Games Beijing 2008 is an original mixed media print realized by Jannis Kounellis.
This artwork is from the portfolio The Unique Collection for the Olympic Fine Arts 2008 presented during the Olympic Games and produced in 260 copies as the only official artistic product of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Each artwork of this portfolio is recognizable by the official stamp of the Olympic Organising Committee.
Hand-signed on the lower right, Numbered on the lower left, Excellent conditions.
Jannis Kounellis (1936-2017) was one of the most important exponents of Arte Povera. Arte Povera, impoverished art, was a phrase coined by the Milanese art...
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Never Ending Spiral - Lithograph by Yannis Kounellis - 2008
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Located in Roma, IT
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Untitled - Original Artbook with Suite of Etchings by Yannis Kounellis - 1992
By Jannis Kounellis
Located in Roma, IT
Fragments is an original contemporary artwork / artist book realized by Jannis Kounellis and Giorgio De Dominicis in 1992.
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Materials
Etching
Vecchio non far che presso a queste navi....
By Jannis Kounellis
Located in Roma, IT
Edition 14/90, signed on the lower right, dated on the lower center, numbered on the lower left.
Provenance: Galleria La Salita, Roma.
Category
1970s Contemporary Jannis Kounellis Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Opera in ricordo di Mauro Rostagno
By Jannis Kounellis
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Work in memory of Mauro Rostagno. - Signature, title and edition at the bottom
Edition of 150
Signed
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jannis Kounellis Art
Materials
Screen
Elettra, Music Score Lithograph Jannis Kounellis Arte Povera Italian Avant Garde
By Jannis Kounellis
Located in Surfside, FL
It depicts a musical score or music notes.
Offset Lithography on rag paper
hand signed lower right in pencil: Kounellis
numbered 37/90.
Provenance: The Collection of Ileana Sonnabend (Mrs Leo Castelli) & the Estate of Nina Castelli Sundell
I have seen this piece identified as being 1969 and I have seen it as 1972.
Spartito musicale.
Jannis Kounellis (Greek: Γιάννης Κουνέλλης; 23 March 1936 – 16 February 2017) was a Greek Italian contemporary artist based in Rome. A key figure associated with Arte Povera, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.
Kounellis was born in Piraeus, Greece in 1936. 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. 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. His work has become integral to numerous renowned, international museums' collections.
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, Arte povera means literally ‘poor art’ but the word poor here refers to the movement’s signature exploration of a wide range of materials beyond the traditional ones of oil paint on canvas, bronze, or carved marble. Materials used by the artists included soil, rags and twigs.
Leading artists were Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Piero Gilardi, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini and Gilberto Zorio. They worked in many different ways. They
worked in painting, sculpture and photography and made performances and installations, creating works of large physical presence as well as small-scale gestures. 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.
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." 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...
Category
1960s Arte Povera Jannis Kounellis Art
Materials
Lithograph
Photo Lithograph Jannis Kounellis Arte Povera Italian Avant Garde Etching
By Jannis Kounellis
Located in Surfside, FL
'Lo faro il litterato tutta la vita'
Photo Lithography on rag paper
hand signed lower right in pencil: Kounellis
numbered 37/90.
Provenance: The Collection of Ileana Sonnabend (Mrs Leo Castelli) & the Estate of Nina Castelli Sundell
I have seen this piece identified as being 1969 and I have seen it as 1972.
Jannis Kounellis (Greek: Γιάννης Κουνέλλης; 23 March 1936 – 16 February 2017) was a Greek Italian contemporary artist based in Rome. A key figure associated with Arte Povera, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.
Kounellis was born in Piraeus, Greece in 1936. 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. 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. His work has become integral to numerous renowned, international museums' collections.
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, Arte povera means literally ‘poor art’ but the word poor here refers to the movement’s signature exploration of a wide range of materials beyond the traditional ones of oil paint on canvas, bronze, or carved marble. Materials used by the artists included soil, rags and twigs.
Leading artists were Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Piero Gilardi, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini and Gilberto Zorio. They worked in many different ways. They
worked in painting, sculpture and photography and made performances and installations, creating works of large physical presence as well as small-scale gestures. 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.
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." 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.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1960: La Tartaruga gallery, Rome
1969: Attico Gallery, Rome
1981: Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
1982: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1988: Castle of Rivoli, Turin
1996: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
2005: Albertina, Vienna
2007: Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2007: Kounellis - Jaffa Port...
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1960s Arte Povera Jannis Kounellis Art
Materials
Lithograph
Rose - Mixed Media by Jannis Kounellis - 1963
By Jannis Kounellis
Located in Roma, IT
"Rose" is an original artwork realized by Jannis Kounellis in 1963. It is hand signed overleaf and made with mixed media on cardboard.
The Certificate of Authenticity is on a signed photograph.
Exhibitions: Rome 1960 - the Dealer's Choice, Galleria Angelica, Rome, 2012.
Reference: Luca Beatrice, Roma ’60, Milano, Silvana Editoriale, 2010, p. 189.
Very good conditions, wooden frame included.
Jannis Kounellis (1936 – 2017) was a Greek painter and sculptor. He anticipated and fostered the development of the Arte Povera movement. From the 1980s, his artworks often retrieved fragments and ancient objects...
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1960s Arte Povera Jannis Kounellis Art
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Mixed Media
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Photographic Paper
H 6.78 in W 9.45 in D 0.04 in
Untitled
By Jannis Kounellis
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Edition of 90 prints.
Category
20th Century Arte Povera Jannis Kounellis Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Never Ending Spiral - Original Lithograph by Yannis Kounellis - 2008
By Jannis Kounellis
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed lithograph, 2008.
This work by Jannis Kounellis -a key figure associated with Arte Povera- is from the portfolio The Unique Collection for the Olympic Fine Arts 2008 pre...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Jannis Kounellis Art
Materials
Lithograph
H 37.21 in W 27.56 in D 0.04 in
Untitled
By Jannis Kounellis
Located in Houston, TX
Jannis Kounellis
Untitled, 1979
Photo-etching and aquatint
45 x 36 ed. 21
Category
Jannis Kounellis Art
Materials
Etching
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