Jannis Kounellis

Untitled, 2016

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Lithograph on BFK Rives 250g
Sheet size 40.00 x 35.00 cm
Image size 32.00 x 27.00 cm
Signed and numbered
Edition of 45 + 5 AP

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An exceptional artist has the honor: The great artist Jannis Kounellis created an exceptional exhibition, and the setting could not have been more appropriate. In the halls of the Monnaie de Paris, the former French Mint, Kounellis created an accessible artwork in situ thatacknowledges him as the true pioneer of Arte Povera. The book we have published complements the exhibition rather than reproduces it. Most importantly, it refamiliarizes the reader with famous installations like 12 Live Horses from 1969, objects such as Artist Shoes with Golden Soles from 1975, and installations such as those made for the museum Haus Esters (1984) and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne (1997).
 
For our Edition Hatje Cantz, Jannis Kounellis has created a lithograph that is small, but beautifully made, and presents an original piece of the Arte Povera: Kounellis’ own shoe print brought onto stone as a lithograph, printed in a small edition.  The artwork references, among other things, the piece Artist Shoes with Golden Soles from 1975 and successfully combines seeming opposites (light and heavy, stagnation and movement). Signed, numbered and in a beautiful folio, with book.
 
“I search for unity in dramatic ways, although it is out of reach, although it is utopian, although it is impossible, and for all of these reasons dramatic.”—Jannis Kounellis