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Lot 55 PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT THE FUNDACIÒ ANTONI TÀPIES
Jannis Kounellis (b. 1936)
Untitled
Closed5 November 2014
Price Realised
EUR 99,900
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'Clay is matter, iron is matter, paper is matter. We need to extend the concept of matter: matter is giving form, matter that takes on meaning, matter that becomes significant.
A hundredweight of coal, not plastic painted like coal, not an abstract weight. A weight is what it hides, its history, its morality. For the artist a hundredweight of coal is the moral history of an aesthetic.
Things become more real, more true. True in a moral sense, not imitation, quotation, realism. Realism is always falsehood and even what is concrete can be quite unreal.
Matter that takes on significance: to find the meaning of matter and the obligations that this implies; in other words, what can be done in the face of a culture. Linguistic obligations, because not everything is permitted.'
(Jannis Kounellis as quoted in: G. Moure (a.o), Jannis Kounellis: works, writing, 1958-2000, Barcelona 2001 p. 313)
A hundredweight of coal, not plastic painted like coal, not an abstract weight. A weight is what it hides, its history, its morality. For the artist a hundredweight of coal is the moral history of an aesthetic.
Things become more real, more true. True in a moral sense, not imitation, quotation, realism. Realism is always falsehood and even what is concrete can be quite unreal.
Matter that takes on significance: to find the meaning of matter and the obligations that this implies; in other words, what can be done in the face of a culture. Linguistic obligations, because not everything is permitted.'
(Jannis Kounellis as quoted in: G. Moure (a.o), Jannis Kounellis: works, writing, 1958-2000, Barcelona 2001 p. 313)