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Jannis Kounellis--Artist

Jannis Kounellis was born in Piraeus in Greece and has lived and worked in Rome since 1956. He was a seminal contributor to the radically and internationally influential Arte Povera group. Often epic in scale, Kounellis’s work possesses a grandeur that reflects his frequent choice of themes and ideas from the past and particularly from Ancient Greece.

During the 1960s Kounellis abandoned traditional painting in favour of a host of found and everyday materials with which he created sculptures and installations using materials such as sacking, beans, cotton, metal and wool. This exhibition of sculptures at Tramway draws together some of the most significant works from the ARTIST ROOMS collection and new work which responds to the unique context of Tramway’s redoubtable main gallery. Read more …


 

Where and when?

Tramway, Glasgow from Friday July 20, 2012, until Sunday September 23, 2012. Closed Mondays. Tickets: Admission free.. More info: www.tramway.org

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