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  • Jannis Kounellis

    Galleria Christian Stein | Milan

    Unlike the visually and emotionally intense environment of Jannis Kounellis’ last installation at this gallery, in 1985, in which jets of flame set against steel panels all along the walls created a “burning” field of tension, his recent installation here followed a more intellectual, constructive formula. Using some of the materials that have become familiar from much of his previous work—sheet metal, burlap sacks, an oil lamp, coal—he created works on two walls and a floor piece next to a third wall. The basic units of construction in one wall work were steel panels of two different sizes.

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