Jannis Kounellis

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JANNIS KOUNELLIS: SENZA TITOLO
IVORYPRESS
ISBN: 9788493949860 | US $27.00
Pub Date: 3/31/2013
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KOUNELLIS
Text by Bruno Corà, Annamaria Maggi, Ruggero Martines, Vito Labarile.
SILVANA EDITORIALE
ISBN: 9788836618019 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 3/31/2011
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JANNIS KOUNELLIS
Essays by Jan Hoet and Dieter Roelstraete.
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881583867 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 8/2/2002
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JANNIS KOUNELLIS: WORKS, WRITINGS 1958-2000
Essay Gloria Moure.
POLIGRAFA
ISBN: 9788434309227 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 8/2/2001
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JANNIS KOUNELLIS
Text by Angela Schneider, Marc Scheps.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775721080 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2008
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JANNIS KOUNELLIS
Edited by Peter Noever.
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775708647 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 4/2/2000
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Jannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis: Senza Titolo

Published by Ivorypress

This sixth title in Ivorypress’ LiberArs series devoted to small-format artists’ books presents a series of monotypes by Jannis Kounellis (born 1936), created with second-hand coats that the artist found in small flea markets and subsequently deployed to apply pigment onto paper.

Kounellis

Text by Bruno Corà, Annamaria Maggi, Ruggero Martines, Vito Labarile.
Published by Silvana Editoriale

Working in Rome since 1956, Greek artist Jannis Kounellis (born 1936) was a seminal contributor to the Arte Povera group. Kounellis began his career as a painter; influenced by Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana, he explored the boundaries of the medium and by 1963 was using found elements in his practice. Often monumental in scale, the artist's work unites ancient Greek themes with "poor" materials such as iron, wool, gold, jute sacks, coal, fire and even, controversially, live animals. One of his best-known works from the late 1960s incorporated 11 horses installed in the gallery. Published in conjunction with an exhibition in Bari, Italy, this monograph examines some of the artist's recent monumental evocations and explorations of the human figure and other sculptures alongside past works.

Jannis Kounellis

Text by Angela Schneider, Marc Scheps.
Published by Hatje Cantz

In 1969, Greek-born Jannis Kounellis famously exhibited 11 live horses at Rome’s Galleria l’Attico. Kounellis, who has been living in Rome since the beginning of his career, is a pioneer of the Arte Povera movement, which originated in Italy in the mid-60s and is characterized by antiestablishment media (like street theater) and antielitist materials (like rope, rocks and discarded metal). Kounellis preferred dirt, fire, gold, burlap sacks, smoke and coffee grounds--to name a few of the substances that gradually appeared in his sculptures and installations. In 2002, Kounellis created his masterwork, “Labyrinth,” a monumental installation composed of 143 eight-foot-tall vertical iron panels surrounded by a layer of coal. Viewers can walk through to encounter traces of Kounellis’ past pieces: burlap sacks, an iron cot, coffee grounds. Like a trip through “Labyrinth,” this comprehensive monograph contributes richly to the understanding of Kounellis’ influential 40-year career.

Jannis Kounellis

Essays by Jan Hoet and Dieter Roelstraete.
Published by Charta

Greek-born artist Jannis Kounellis is often identified with the Italian Arte Povera movement, though he had already made a name for himself in the Roman art scene of the early 1960s before allying himself to that movement in 1967. Using materials then considered unusual (such as wool, coal, live animals and plants), and blessed with a keen sixth sense for combining them, Kounellis worked to eliminate ideological boundaries between life and art, ethics and aesthetics, creation and production, the social and the individual. In the 1970s and 1980s, Kounellis continued to build this vocabulary of materials, introducing smoke, shelving units, coffee and coal. Kounellis's exemplary artistic odyssey and his more than four decades of fervent and impassioned activity are here surveyed on the occasion of his first large-scale exhibition in Belgium.

Jannis Kounellis: Works, Writings 1958-2000

Essay Gloria Moure.
Published by Poligrafa

This monumental publication on the artist Jannis Kounellis covers the entirety of his career from the late 1950s thorugh the 1990s. Kounellis was a co-founder of the Italian movement Arte Povera and used a variety of materials, organic (coffee, coal) and inorganic (steel plates, textiles), to create his sculptural works, which speak to such elemental themes as heat, creation, decay and endurance.

Jannis Kounellis

Edited by Peter Noever.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers