Senza Titolo, 1999

In this edition, Jannis Kounellis draws the viewer into a visual riddle: heads, faces, or a chaotic arrangement of stones? Instinctively, one tilts their head, as if trying to orient the work upright. This disruption of perception aligns with Kounellis’ artistic logic. Characteristic is the deep, dark black, applied with dynamic intensity, radiating beyond the edges of the image into the surrounding space. The painting becomes tangible – almost physically present. Kounellis, who celebrated the dissolution of traditional art conventions, saw painting as a point of departure for spatial expansion. In Senza Titolo, he achieves this with minimal means and maximum effect: the image remains a painting – and yet appears sculptural. Boundaries between artistic genres dissolve, and the viewer becomes part of the imaginative act.