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Jannis Kounellis was born on 23 March, 1936 in Piraeus, Greece, is a Greek artist. Discover Jannis Kounellis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

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Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 23 March, 1936
Birthday 23 March
Birthplace Piraeus, Greece
Date of death 16 February, 2017
Died Place Rome, Italy
Nationality Greece

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1936

Jannis Kounellis (Γιάννης Κουνέλλης; 23 March 1936 – 16 February 2017) was a Greek Italian artist based in Rome.

A key figure associated with Arte Povera, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.

Kounellis was born in Piraeus, Greece in 1936.

1956

He lived in Greece during the Second World War and Greek Civil War before he moved to Rome in 1956.

1960

From 1960 to 1966, Kounellis went through a period of only exhibiting paintings.

In some of his first exhibitions, Kounellis began stenciling numbers, letters, and words onto his canvases, often reflecting advertisements and signs seen on the street.

In 1960 he began to introduce found sculptural objects such as actual street signs into his work, exhibiting at Galleria La Tartaruga.

This same year he donned one of his stencil paintings as a garment and created a performance in his studio to demonstrate himself literally becoming one with his painting.

This newfound convergence of painting, sculpture, and performance was Kounellis' way out of traditional art.

1961

By 1961 he began to paint on newspaper to reflect his feelings towards modern society and politics.

1963

From 1963, Kounellis introduced found objects in his artworks, among them live animals but also fire, earth, burlap sacks, and gold.

He replaced the canvas with bed frames, doorways, windows or simply the gallery itself.

1967

In 1967, Kounellis became associated with Arte Povera, a movement theorized by curator Germano Celant as a major shift from work on flat surfaces to installations.

Kounellis participated in the exhibition 'Arte Povera – e IM Spazio' at the La Bertesca Gallery in Genoa curated by Celant, which brought together artists whose work was concerned with the space between art and life, and nature and culture.

Examples of artists who substantiated this basis of Arte Povera as a movement include Alighiero Boetti, Luciano Fabro, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, and Emilio Prini.

In 1967, Kounellis installed "live birds in cages along with rose-shaped, cloth cut-outs pinned to canvas" alongside his painting.

Through this shift in his work, "Kounellis was more interested in anarchical freedom from linguistic norms and conventional materials. The space of the gallery and the exhibition site in general were transformed into a stage where real life and fiction could join in a suspension of disbelief."

The viewers became part of the scene of these living natural sources of energy within the gallery space.

1968

To solidify the movement, Celant curated yet another group show, 'Arte Povera', which was exhibited at the De' Foscherari gallery in Bologna in 1968 with similar artists.

In the same year Kounellis exhibited 'Senza titolo (Untitled)', which consisted of raw wool, rope, and a wooden structure all leaning against a wall.

Finally, Kounellis was also included in 'RA3 Arte Povera + Azioni povere' which was organized by Marcello Rumma and curated by Celant.

In 1968, in an interview by Marisa Volpi.

Kounellis stated that incidental adjustments are certain as aspects that can indicate the human liberty of life.

1969

He continued his involvement with live animals later in 1969, when he exhibited twelve living horses, as if they were cars, in the Galleria l'Attico's new location in an old garage in Via Beccaria.

Gradually, Kounellis introduced new materials, such as propane torches, smoke, coal, meat, ground coffee, lead, and found wooden objects into his installations.

He also looked beyond the gallery environment to historical (mostly industrial) sites.

1971

Kounellis participated in many international exhibitions, including the Biennale of Paris (1971), Documenta (1972, 1977, 1982), the Venice Biennale (1972, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1993, and 2011 ), the Istanbul Biennial (1993), and the Biennale of Sydney (2008).

His work has also been exhibited in many museums and institutions such as the Kunstmuseum in Bern, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, The Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, and the Neue National gallery in Berlin.

1973

He later curated another exhibition that on another ship called Apollo in 1973 as an addition to "Ionion".

1974

In 1974, he performed with Edward Kienholz, Wolf Vostell, and other artists in Berlin at the ADA – Aktionen der Avantgarde.

His work has become integral to numerous renowned, international museums' collections.

1980

Kounellis' work from the 1980s, which also consisted of sculptures and performances using unusual materials, traveled all over Europe.

1994

In 1994, Kounellis held an exhibition titled Ionion, in which he displayed his work on a boat docked in his town of birth in Piraeus, Greece.

1997

In 1997, Kounellis installed thirteen wardrobes and two doors that were sealed in lead along a scaffolding ledge that blocked the entry to a central hall.

2009

In October 2009, Kounellis exhibited many works at Tate Modern Gallery in London, United Kingdom.

Jonathan Jones of The Guardian newspaper noted that his "Dry-stone walling, sacks of grain and rice, and a painting that includes part of the score of St John Passion by JS Bach, bring a sense of real life, organic and ancient, into the museum."

2017

On 16 February 2017, Kounellis died at the Villa Mafalda hospital in Rome at the age of 80.

His estate is represented by Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York/Brussels, and Sprovieri, London.