“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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Jannis Kounellis: Gray is the Color of Our Time
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