Telling one’s own story doesn’t simply mean showing what has happened, but creating, first of all for oneself, a relationship between the past and the present. This act gives rise to communication between the various places of a person’s development. In these two shows, Jannis Kounellis condensed his artistic evolution and presented the viewer with both his own story and a sense of continuity with the birth of a new vision. This is not a new way of working for Kounellis, but is, in fact, the basis of his artistic process. What emerged from the shows was the necessity to give shape to the