Jannis Kounellis (1936-2017) - Blu, verde, viola, giallo

Jannis Kounellis was born in Piraeus, in Attica, after having been
responded from the School of Fine Arts of Athens in 1956, just a bit more
A twenty-year-old leaves Greece for the Italian capital.
enrolls in the Academy of Fine Arts.
where he completed his studies under the guidance of Toti Scialoja.
to which the influence of abstract expressionism, that,
Together with informal art, it constitutes the fundamental binomial.
from which his/her/its creative journey begins.
He made his debut in 1960, always staging his first in Rome.
Personal exhibition at the 'La Tartaruga' gallery.
In his early works, in fact, he depicts typographic signs.
on a light background, that allude to the invention of a new
order for a fragmented, pulverized language.
The first exhibitions that are ideologically close date back to 1967.
to the movement
of 'poor' art in which the use of products and materials
Common usage suggests a function for art.
Radically creative.
In 1969, the installation becomes a genuine performance.
Horses tied to the walls of the L'Attico gallery.
Sargentini, in a sumptuous ideal clash between nature and culture.
in which the role of the artist is reduced to the minimum level of
a primarily manual task, almost akin to that of a manual worker or laborer.
In this context, this lithograph titled:
Blue, green, purple, and yellow
Photolithographic-based lithography 23/90.
Image Measurements
47 cm. (Height)
cm. 67 (Width)
Total measurements
height: 68 cm
78 centimeters (width)
cm. 1.3 (Thickness)
Signed at the bottom right.
Stampa Fratelli R. R. Bulla: Cartography of the Sicars of Catania.