Jannis Kounellis

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Jannis Kounellis (2004)

Jannis Kounellis ( Greek Γιάννης Κουνέλλης , born March 23, 1936 in Piraeus ; † February 16, 2017 in Rome ) was a Greek artist living in Italy . The co-founder of the Arte Povera movement is considered one of the most internationally important contemporary Greek artists.

life and work

Kounellis was the son of a shipbuilding engineer who had been a member of the resistance during World War II . He began his studies at the Athens School of Fine Arts ; In 1956 he moved to the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome . Since then he has lived and worked in Rome. His works have been shown in renowned art institutes around the world.

In 1963 he began to integrate objects found by chance into his works, including earth, sacks of potatoes, scrap and fire; they often take up a lot of space.

In 1969 he exhibited twelve live horses in the Galleria L'Attico . In the same year he participated in the by Harald Szeemann at the Kunsthalle Bern staged group show If attitudes form are part (When Attitudes Become Form). Jannis Kounellis was a participant in documenta 5 (1972) in the Individual Mythologies : Processes department and documenta 7 in 1982 in Kassel .

In 1974 Jannis Kounellis took part in ADA campaigns by the avant-garde in Berlin. His Tragedia civile (1975) is part of every annual exhibition in the Kolumba Museum in Cologne. In 1991 Kounellis was the first artist with a project on the history of the Stommeln synagogue in the former church. Since then, the project has been continued annually by other artists.

His contribution to the international sculpture project Platzverführung 1992/93 caused a sensation : a gallows as high as a house was erected next to the Gothic cathedral in Schwäbisch Gmünd . A huge linen bag, filled with furniture, dangled from him. The protests of the population dominated the local press for weeks. The plant eventually had to be dismantled prematurely after the contents of the bag were damaged by spring storms. On September 13, 2012 the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd announced that the gallows stored in the municipal building yard had meanwhile been disposed of because the wood of the sculpture was rotting. Screws and fittings were retained, however.

Kounellis also designed sets and worked as a playwright. From 1993 to 2001 he was a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

Public collections

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

literature

  • Jannis Kounellis, Peter Noever: Jannis Kounellis . Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-77570-864-2 .
  • Jannis Kounellis . Catalog of the 2007/08 exhibition in the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009 ISBN 978-3-7757-2108-0 .
  • Jannis Kounellis: The wind. Texts and drawings . Edition Nautilus (Small Library for Hand and Head), Hamburg, [2006].
  • Rudi H. Fuchs, Veit Görner [Eds.] Platzverführung 1992/1993 . Ed. Cantz, Stuttgart, 1992, ISBN 3-89322-386-X .
  • Jannis Kounellis, Mark Lammert , Heiner Müller : Blockade / I ate at night with ghosts , two volumes. Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-929473-03-8 .
  • Ines Goldbach: Ways out of Arte Povera. Jannis Kounellis in the context of international art development . Gebrüder Mann Verlag, Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7861-2620-1 .
  • Jannis Kounellis, Rudi Fuchs, Annegret Laabs: Jannis Kounellis . Magdeburg 2012; JOVIS Verlag Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-206-1 .

Web links

Commons : Jannis Kounellis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituaries: Jannis Kounellis, 80 . In: Der Spiegel 9/2017 of February 25, 2017, p. 135.
  2. ^ "ADA - Actions of the Avant-garde" . Website of the project “Medien Kunst Netz”, accessed on February 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ The fate of Gmünd's lost century sculpture “Galgen” has been clarified . Rems-Zeitung , September 14, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2017 (with photos of the work of art).
  4. ↑ JANNIS KOUNELLIS - Fondazione Prada. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 218 .
personal data
SURNAME Kounellis, Jannis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Κουνέλλης, Γιάννης (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Piraeus
DATE OF DEATH 16th February 2017
Place of death Rome