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Jannis Kounellis was born in Piraeus. He was rejected from the School of Fine Arts in Athens and in 1956 he moved in Rome and studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. Later he became a teacher at the Arts Academy of the city of D?sseldorf. Since the early ?60s, appeared in contemporary art with a peculiar, very personal visual vocabulary, as we all know, originally projected an and then reached to the creation of artworks composed of images of the most recent industrial-urban past. Kounellis?s painting would gradually become sculptural; by 1963, the artist was using found elements in his paintings. Kounellis began to use live animals in his art during the late 1960s; one of his best-known works included 12 horses installed in the gallery. Kounellis not only questioned the traditionally pristine, sterile environment of the gallery but also transformed art into a breathing entity. http://www.dreamideamachine.com/en/?p=11120