Untitled
Jannis Kounellis
Greek, 1936–2017
1977
A spare, large-scale drawing in synthetic polymer paint, tallow, and adhesive tape on colored paper where Kounellis tapes a thin tallow cord—coiled at the base—into the sheet amid scattered blue paint gestures to blur drawing and object.
You first notice the warm brown expanse pierced by a vertical, fleshy cord secured with two strips of tape and a small coil at the bottom, while loose navy smudges float across the paper like a sparse sky of marks.
Aligning with Arte Povera, this work uses perishable and everyday materials to collapse painting, sculpture, and drawing, insisting that art can be an index of physical presence and industrial life rather than a purely pictorial surface.
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint, tallow, and adhesive tape on colored paper
Dimensions
39 1/4 x 58 1/8" (99.6 x 147.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Barbara G. Pine
Accession
444.1982
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