Dimensions: displayed: 650 x 450 x 140 mm
Copyright: © Jannis Kounellis | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: So, this is an Untitled piece, sometimes called "Sack with Z," by Jannis Kounellis. It features a burlap sack stenciled with a dark "Z," all caged in metal. It feels… industrial and restrained. What do you make of it? Curator: Restrained, yes, but also strangely vulnerable. That sack, that humble material, feels trapped, doesn’t it? Kounellis often played with juxtapositions – the raw and the refined, the organic and the geometric. That "Z," too – is it a signature, a brand, a warning? Maybe all three, you know? It resonates with migrant displacement after the Second World War. Editor: A warning... I like that. I hadn't considered the historical context so directly. Curator: It's there, subtly woven in like the threads of that sack. Makes you think, right? Editor: Absolutely. I'll look at Kounellis differently now.
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Untitled (Sack with Z) 2001 is a mesh-fronted, shallow metal box containing a jute sack filled with coal. On the front of the sack a large letter ‘Z’ is printed in black paint. The sack takes up three-quarters of the space within the box, and the top of the sack is slightly rolled back so that some of the coal is visible. From 1989 to 2005 Kounellis made a series of works produced in editions, described as multiples, in which he incorporated elements drawn from the vocabulary of his earlier practice. Untitled (Sack with Z) is one of these multiples, produced in an edition of twenty-five.
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