Download or read book Jannis Kounellis in Acq written by Stephen Bann and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 40 years, sculptor and installation artist Jannis Kounellis has established himself as a unique presence in the world of contemporary art. His work, whether included in temporary exhibitions or placed in semi-permanent installations, invariably lingers in the memory because of its forceful character and its ability to transform its immediate environment. Stephen Bann refers to Kounellis's working practice as a process of "making strange". In all his installations, the material impact of the work sets off a trail of associations. Potent examples include his 1969 installation of twelve tethered live horses in a gallery in Rome, the city where the prototypes of the equestrian monuments of Antiquity can still be seen, or his 1975 Civil Tragedy installation in which a hat-stand with black hat and coat against a gold-leaf background lit by a small lamp recalled the café society of Central Europe against a wall of Byzantine splendor. As an artist, Kounellis has found his special location in Rome. At the age of 20, he made the journey there from Piraeus, the ancient port of Athens, and began his career. His works continue to bear the hallmarks of his Eastern Mediterranean origin, as well as testifying to his concern with the links between Russian Modernism and the Byzantine tradition. Stephen Bann has not set out to write a conventional monograph about the artist. Rather, he looks at the underlying mechanisms in Kounellis's practice, suggesting the ways in which they are important in the broader context of late modernist art. He outlines the distinctive way in which Kounellis takes account of space as a necessary preliminary to working within it, and discusses the historical and cultural dimension to which Kounellis lays claim.
Download or read book Jannis Kounellis written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art of Change written by Stephanie Rosenthal and published by Hayward Gallery Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amongst a host of exhibitions and books surveying 'New Art from China', this title stands out as a uniquely focussed investigation of Chinese sculpture and installation. Exploring the work of a small number of artists – Liang Shaoij, Wang Jianwei, Xu Zhen/MadeIn Company, Gu Dexin, Sun Yuan/Peng Yu, Chen Zhen, Ying Mei Duan – and illustrating their most powerful and engaging works, this book traces a very particular seam of performative Chinese art from the late 1980s to the present.The artists featured here privilege performance, participation and change in their works. Often working on a grand scale, they invite the audience to engage with overwhelming, theatrical, yet ephemeral experiences – works which transform or change over time, as Xu Zhen's Actions of Consciousness, in which two concealed assistants make and toss into the air colourful sculptures, from inside an apparently sealed white cube.Published to coincide with a major exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book explores the political, social and cultural conditions that have shaped contemporary Chinese sculpture of this kind. Commentary on individual artists is accompanied by a central text by Hayward Chief Curator Stephanie Rosenthal, critical essays and individual texts on the artists featured.
Download or read book Echoes in the Darkness written by Jannis Kounellis and published by Trolley Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Greek port of Piraeus, there is a small tramp steamer moored at the dock. The Ionion's cargo decks are laden with the works of the Italian artist Jannis Kounellis, born in Piraeus in 1936. The ship, and its manifest, are a metaphor for the high priest of Arte Povera, the art movement founded in Italy in the late 1960s.
Download or read book Jannis Kounellis written by Jannis Kounellis and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KEYNOTE: This book presents the definitive retrospective of the avant-garde European artist Jannis Kounellis' work as seen within its spatial context. Born in Greece in 1936, Jannis Kounellis witnessed some of the most tumultuous periods in Modern art and radically impacted the art scene since the 1960s. Based in Rome since 1956, he began working on canvas, but after his "Alphabet" paintings Kounellis abandoned the two-dimensional surface. He became a central figure of the Arte Povera movement, developing a vocabulary of modest materials such as coal, wool, and coffee, and even incorporated living animals like parrots and horses into his art. Kounellis' work took on a spatial dimension with his poetic installations reflecting industrial and agrarian societies, as well as moral and social concerns. This riveting monograph includes an in-depth and richly illustrated survey of 22 projects in factories, warehouses, churches and castles all over the world, including Rome, Chicago, Barcelona, Cologne, Mexico City, Berlin, and London. Each location represents a unique event where Kounellis' work and the architectural environment merge to create a dialogue between the artist and the space. The book offers readers a unique opportunity to observe the evolution of Kounellis' work as the artist explored increasingly unconventional--and often controversial--methods for delivering his social and political messages. AUTHOR: Marc Scheps has been Director of the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, and the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation. He is the author of many publications on Modern and Contemporary art. ILLUSTRATIONS 400 duotone illustrations *
Download or read book Jannis Kounellis written by Brian Wallis and published by Parkett Publishers. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book CHRISTIANE LOEHR BILINGUAL EDITION written by and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 20-year survey of Christiane Löhr's delicate sculptures made from organic materials German sculptor and installation artist Christiane Löhr (born 1965) creates fragile, nearly ephemeral sculptures using only natural materials, such as plant stems, blossoms, seeds and horse hair. This volume gathers work from the last 20 years alongside essays on the artist.
Download or read book Self portrait written by Carla Lonzi and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recorded and transcribed throughout the 1960s, Carla Lonzi's Self-portrait ruptures the linear tradition of art-historical writing. Lonzi first abolishes the role of the critic, her own, seeking change over self-preservation by theorising against the act of theorising. This is the voice of feminist experimentalism in Italian art and literature, and here Lonzi speaks for herself in English. Self-portrait montages her verbatim conversations with fourteen prominent artists working at the time, all men except one. Lonzi's vital feeling that it was impossible to respond professionally to the political and existential problems embedded in the production and distribution of artworks drives the book's contingent structure. Artmaking struck Lonzi as the invitation to be together in a humanly satisfying way. This first English translation brings Lonzi's final work of criticism before her break with 'art' to an international audience. Her uncompromising enactment and pragmatic drop-out discontinues the narration of postwar modern art in Italy and beyond.
Download or read book Arte Povera written by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and published by Dilecta. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smoke Shadows written by Jannis Kounellis and published by Blue Kingfisher. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jannis Kounellis: Smoke Shadowsis the first in a series of pocket-book interviews with key cultural figures by internationally renowned curator, cultural agitator and pioneer J�r�me Sans. Here, Sans looks back with Kounellis over the artist's 40-year career and the early days of the Arte Povera movement.
Download or read book The Knot Arte Povera at P S 1 written by Germano Celant and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jannis Kounellis written by Jannis Kounellis and published by Nicholson. This book was released on 1986 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jannis Kounellis written by Jannis Kounellis and published by Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 basic and elemental themes like heat, creation, decay, endurance, and more. 385 illustrations
Download or read book The Artist and the Book in Twentieth century Italy written by Ralph Jentsch and published by Allemandi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jannis Kounellis written by Rudolf Hermann Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jannis Kounellis written by Jannis Kounellis and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
