Jannis Kounellis (Small Works)
Untitled, 2014
iron beams, torn coat, butcher knife
140 x 60 x 40 cm
Further images
Kounellis makes use of remnants of torn coats skewered to frightful butcher's knives, clasped between two metal bars. The restrained composition and the shade (ombra) created by the torn coats...
Kounellis makes use of remnants of torn coats skewered to frightful butcher's knives, clasped between two metal bars. The restrained composition and the shade (ombra) created by the torn coats on the white wall evokes the dark shadowy light in the art of Caravaggio (Rudi Fuchs, 2014; translation by Beth O'Brien). This work contains numerous typical elements of Kounellis’s artist practice as well as the everyday materials used in the Arte Povera. The coats that he uses, for instance, express the scale of the human figure.
Exhibitions
- Jannis Kounellis, Sprovieri, London, 12 December 2014 - 21 February 2015Literature
- Jannis Kounellis, Sprovieri, London, 2016- Kounellis, Fondazione Prada, Venice, 2019, illustrated p. 474 - 475
- senzamargine. Passaggi nell'arte italiana a cavallo del millennio, MAXXI, Marsilio, Venezia, 2021, illustrated p. 168
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