JANNIS KOUNELLIS: GRAY IS THE COLOR OF OUR TIME

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Jannis Kounellis (Greek artist b. 1936, painter and sculptor, strongly associated with Arte Povera), interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner in for Louisiana Channel of Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, discusses the impact of globalization in art and the built space, talks about his preferences in architecture and the his own influences from Impressionism to Cubism: 
 
“For me, atmosphere is something static. Cubism removes the atmosphere and as a result embraces classicism because it removes the atmosphere. Everything returns to the interior and the greys, the ochres, are interior colours and the Impressionist colours are gone“.
 
As far as the contemporary alienated society and the fragmentation issues it faces, Kounellis states that  “I don’t think we are in a Belle Époque now. It’s another time of construction, a dramatic time of hope.” There’s a distance between globalism and internationalism, and while he sees the first as leading to “creative nonsense,” he considers the latter to spring from “cultures deeply rooted in men’s minds“.
 
Credits:
Camera: Jakob Solbakken 
Edited by: Kamilla Bruus 
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner 
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden 
 
 
 
 
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