Italian artist Jannis Kounellis, a major figure in contemporary art for over forty years, creates a unique installation of new and earlier works, specially conceived for the gallery spaces at Modern Art Oxford. It will be his first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery for more than ten years.
Poetic and deeply stirring, the paintings, sculptures and carefully staged installations of Jannis Kounellis evoke shared experiences of people, places and history. His signature materials of steel, cotton, coal, coffee, wood, stones, burlap sacks and gas lamps, form the basis of an artistic language developed by Kounellis since the 1960s.