Jannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis, Dodici Cavalli Livi (1969) L'Attico Gallery, Rome "Carried out partly to confront the economic interests on which galleries are based, this installation took place over a three-day period. The artist chose horses of various breeds and colours, associating them symbolically with energy and power. At the same time he set up ironic art-historical associations with equestrian statues or the horses in the allegorical and mythological paintings of the Italian Renaissance." David Hopkins, After Modern Art 1945-2000 (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2000), 171 fig 87.