As the habitat can influence an artist, displays the works of Jannis Kounellis. The 1936 in Piraeus (Greece), who was born in Rome and now living artists is to intensively with history and past, present, memory and forgetting apart. And its shape is also very different language than the Roman and Greek roots, its habitat Präg (t) s, they are strongly influenced by the intense discussion of the artist painted. Above all, the theater has it him and he misses the dramatic art in our time. Himself as a painter understanding, he creates in his room installations verchiffrierte Ding relationships. His materials are simple: steel, iron, coal, hair, glass, burlap, cloth, etc. The coolness of objects that Kounellis the foundation for our modern industrial society, and can sometimes shrink. But their original aesthetic also by staging still remains authentic, gives us precisely because of the frequent pairing of opposites, such as permanent - ephemeral, soft - hard, man - alive, the paradox of life and theater clear. The living (and human) is always in its present figurative language - it is the starting point, some way, and always objective. © ArtLogistics |
