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Jannis Kounellis was a Greek Italian contemporary artist based in Rome. A key figure associated with Arte Povera, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. March 1936 – 16. February 2017
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Jannis Kounellis Quotes

“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.”

Jannis Kounellis

Quoted in Kristine Stiles & Peter Howard Selz: Theories and documents of contemporary art (1996) P.671

“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.”

Jannis Kounellis

Quoted in Kristine Stiles & Peter Howard Selz: Theories and documents of contemporary art (1996) P.670

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