In 2014, three years before he died, Kounellis produced in the Albicocco de Udine workshop in Italy a spectacular series of twelve large etchings (220 x 120 cm) with a very limited production run of just 12 copies. Portraying the imprints of coats on large metal plates, these impressive etchings are evocative of the powerful sets he designed for theatre and the opera. What can be described as a sort of vast shroud now takes on a premonitory dimension. Never before exhibited outside of Italy, we are presenting them along with three unique works composed with coats, or their imprints, arranged on the sheets of metal that were the “canvases” of the artist, who always considered himself a painter.
In 2014, three years before he died, Kounellis produced in the Albicocco de Udine workshop in Italy a spectacular series of twelve large etchings (220 x 120 cm) with a very limited production run of just 12 copies. Portraying the imprints of coats on large metal plates, these impressive etchings are evocative of the powerful sets he designed for theatre and the opera. What can be described as a sort of vast shroud now takes on a premonitory dimension. Never before exhibited outside of Italy, we are presenting them along with three unique works composed with coats, or their imprints, arranged on the sheets of metal that were the “canvases” of the artist, who always considered himself a painter.
A major retrospective of Kounellis, organised by Germano Celant, who coined the term of Arte Povera, will open at the Prada Foundation in May 2019 in Venice, during the Biennale.
Galerie Lelong & Co. is publishing a special volume of the lengthy interview between Jérôme Sans and Jannis Kounellis in 2011 that has never been published in France
Fascinated in recent times by the question of reverse perspective and its philosophical and artistic implications, he recently produced four vast new Photographic Drawings, which we will present on the four walls of our salon. In particular, we can see the artist posing in the middle of his workshop in Los Angeles, surrounded by his most recent works (some of which were exhibited during the 2017 retrospective of his work at the Centre Pompidou).
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Fascinated in recent times by the question of reverse perspective and its philosophical and artistic implications, he recently produced four vast new Photographic Drawings, which we will present on the four walls of our salon. In particular, we can see the artist posing in the middle of his workshop in Los Angeles, surrounded by his most recent works (some of which were exhibited during the 2017 retrospective of his work at the Centre Pompidou).
Having chosen to paint on canvases whose lower corners have been cut off in order to materialise his concept of reverse perspective, one of these Photographic Drawings has the same shape. At 81 years of age, David Hockney continues to demonstrate incredible vitality.
2018 has been an important year for the artist with a major installation in Madrid Not only has 2018 seen the preparation of two major museum exhibitions in Madrid (Palacio de Cristal) and a show in Barcelona (MACBA), as well as the completion of a number of important works (les Trois alchimistes, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles ; Pacific Soul, San Diego…);
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2018 has been an important year for the artist with a major installation in Madrid Not only has 2018 seen the preparation of two major museum exhibitions in Madrid (Palacio de Cristal) and a show in Barcelona (MACBA), as well as the completion of a number of important works (les Trois alchimistes, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles ; Pacific Soul, San Diego…);
it has also been a very productive year in terms of his etchings. The artist has produced Symétrie, a large etching with sinuous and enveloping movement and two series: the six Alchimistes, engraved onto rounded copper and presenting the silhouettes of famous writers inserted in a sort of alphabetical bubble, and the seven digital prints of Lumière Invisible, with their very deep black backgrounds from whence emerge brilliant heads of young girls with their eyes closed.
WOMAN continues the study he has been performing on faces throughout the ages and the world’s main ethnic and cultural groups since 1996 (China, South Korea, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mali, Uzbekistan, Peru, Vietnam...).
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WOMAN continues the study he has been performing on faces throughout the ages and the world’s main ethnic and cultural groups since 1996 (China, South Korea, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mali, Uzbekistan, Peru, Vietnam...).
“As a visual artist and photographer, it is naturally by looking, by interpreting reality
through the use of light that I explore the question of beauty. This has nourished my work since its foundations some thirty years ago, and today is the focus of the photographic study I am carrying out on the beauty of the female face in its universality, its authenticity and its timelessness around the world. How can we enhance what is beautiful? How can we enhance what isn’t beautiful? Why? Do beauty and ugliness actually exist? In parallel, I am carrying out a series of interviews with personalities from various horizons – an actress, a neuroscientist, a poet, a musician, a great fashion designer, an architect, a gallery owner, a major collector, a
model – where I ask them: What is beauty? What is beauty represented by the artist?” Jean-Baptiste Huynh.
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