JANNIS KOUNELLIS

Untitled, 1980

mixed media on canvas

cm.h. 200 x 358

Provenance: the artist

Kounellis presented space as a place for sensory experiences. The spaces or rooms imagined in the drawings are painted in colors that do not so much give them symbolic meaning as create an atmosphere that sums up what the space contains.

Jannis Kounellis is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His profound and evocative art made him a pioneer of the Arte Povera movement.

His work is owned by the most important collections worldwide, including:

MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Collection, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; CAPC, Bordeaux; Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea,Turin; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art; Herning, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein; Kunstmuseum Winterthur; MART, Rovereto; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; MUSEION, Bozen; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Museo MADRE, Naples.