Jannis Kounellis
Greek painter, sculptor and professor of arts (1936–2017)
Jannis Kounellis (23 March 1936 – 16 February 2017) was a Greek artist.
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Quotes
edit- I don't want to delve into the past for archeological pleasure - though it could have been that - but because the past has a reality which conditions us deep down. Then if you bring it slowly to the surface, it's full of possibilities.
- Quoted in Kristine Stiles & Peter Howard Selz: Theories and documents of contemporary art (1996) P.670
- I don't know if I'm making myself clear, but if I were to accept this business of conceptual art I would have no reason to exist.
- Quoted in Kristine Stiles & Peter Howard Selz: Theories and documents of contemporary art (1996) P.671
