Portfolio Federico Garcia Lorca - Graphic by Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis

was born in Pireus near Athens 1936. At the age of twenty he moved to Rome and studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in 1956. Like Beuys, Polke and Richter, Kounellis made the fundamental questions of artistic production the central issue of his art. In 1963 the artist began to integrate objects into his paintings that he came across in the streets, thus becoming a co-founder of the Arte Povera movement.
Amongst other things he uses earth, potato sacks and scrap metal. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago held a retrospective of his art in 1986 and in 1997 the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid) exhibited his works and in in 2007/08 the National Gallery Berlin. His Works can be found in most important European museums for contemporary art today.