National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Athens, Greece
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"Kounellis's signature assemblages of steel, coal, burlap, and live elements articulate a Mediterranean inflection of Arte Povera's material poetics."
EMST presents a constellation of Jannis Kounellis's installations from the 1960s through 2000s, reconstructed from archival specifications alongside surviving elements. The exhibition traces the Greek-born artist's migration from Rome to the international stage, emphasizing how his use of raw materials—sackcloth, coal, steel shelving, flame—registered both industrial decay and classical memory, with recent acquisitions shown publicly for the first time.
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