Collection: Jannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis (1936–2017) — Greek-born, Rome-based artist and central figure of Arte Povera. Working from the late 1950s onward, Kounellis built an art of material confrontation: coal, burlap, steel, fire, live animals, and the body placed in direct relation to institutional space. His 1969 installation at Galleria L’Attico, Rome — twelve live horses in the gallery — remains one of the defining gestures of postwar European art.

Kounellis worked against the dematerialisation of the art object and against the neutrality of the white cube. His materials carried weight, history, and industrial memory. His exhibitions were events of presence and duration, not display.

Exhibition ephemera, printed matter, and related documents from The New Rare.