Jannis Kounellis, Ambika P3 | reviews, news & interviews
Jannis Kounellis, Ambika P3
Jannis Kounellis, Ambika P3
Veteran Arte Povera artist pays homage to the little man in P3's vast, industrial space
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Jannis Kounellis: 'The sculpture looms above the visitors dodging in and out of blind alleys' Photo: Sprovieri Gallery
Last year, visitors to Tate Modern’s Artists’ Rooms could see a room dedicated to Jannis Kounellis. It was filled with some of his most resonant work: a door filled up with drystone walling; burlap sacks of grain, rice, pulses; metal bells. For a founder-member of the Arte Povera movement, it was surprisingly bucolic.
Last year, visitors to Tate Modern’s Artists’ Rooms could see a room dedicated to Jannis Kounellis. It was filled with some of his most resonant work: a door filled up with drystone walling; burlap sacks of grain, rice, pulses; metal bells. For a founder-member of the Arte Povera movement, it was surprisingly bucolic.
more Visual arts
Best of 2020: Visual Arts
Our critics reflect on their favourite exhibitions of 2020
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Tate Britain review - enigmatic figures full of life
When is a painting not a portrait?
Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch, Royal Academy review - juxtapositions that confuse rather than clarify
Similar themes, different sensibilities
Zanele Muholi, Tate Modern review - photography as protest
Pictures so confrontational they knock you sideways
Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer, Barbican Art Gallery review - mould-breaker, ground-shaker
A crash course in the life and times of an iconoclast and muse
Sin, National Gallery review - great subject, modest show
A small gathering can't do justice to this fabulous topic
Bruce Nauman, Tate Modern review - the human condition writ large in neon
How to make great art out of almost nothing
Artemisia, National Gallery review - worth the wait
A glorious celebration of one of the great baroque painters
Hold Still, National Portrait Gallery review - snapshots from lockdown
An online exhibition offers a glimpse of life in Britain now
My Rembrandt review - hard cash and hubris
Characters historical and contemporary mingle in an entertaining portrait of the art world
George IV: Art & Spectacle, The Queen's Gallery review - all is aglitter
A sumptuous display from the Royal Collection heralds a top class reopening
Khadija Saye: In This Space We Breathe, 236 Westbourne Grove review - a celebrated series finds new resonance
The artist's most celebrated works launch a new public art project in west London
Add comment