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Jannis Kounellis (1936)

Professions: Painter; Sculptor

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    JANNIS KOUNELLIS

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    Jannis Kounellis (b. 1936)

Jannis Kounellis Biography

(b Peiraeus, 21 March 1936). Greek painter, performance artist and sculptor, active in Italy. He studied in art college in Athens until 1956 and then went to Italy. He settled in Rome, studying at the Accademia di Belle Arti, where he was particularly influenced by the non-figurative painting of Alberto Burri. From 1958 to 1960 he produced Alphabets , expanses of colour with letters, numbers, typographical symbols and road markings superimposed (e.g. Z.44 , 1960; Rome, G.N.A. Mod.). Such works clearly demonstrated his aim of transcending the poetics of Art informel and pursuing a line of study characterized by contradictory concerns with, on the one hand, the symbols of mass urban and industrial civilization, and on the other, primitive, fundamental, individual values. These were frequently expressed by the artist’s physical participation from 1960 in his own exhibitions at La Tartaruga, thus transforming them into performances where, for example, he would ‘sing’ the numbers and letters painted on the canvases.

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