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| And to think I could have been charging admission to enter my barn...dang it, also can I send my colt?? He needs some time tied at the patience pole plus he is pretty- now he is real living art and he just might give them a real show 
Photographer: Manolis Baboussis via Bloomberg
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See 12 Horses Turn a Downtown Gallery into a Living Art Installation
Jannis Kounellis's Untitled (12 Horses) marks the end of an era for Gavin Brown's Enterprise in New York’s West Village
by Katya Kazakina
June 26, 2015 — 2:08 PM CDT
The horses arrive at noon, transforming Gavin Brown’s Enterprise gallery in downtown Manhattan into a pop-up stable.
Gallery owner Gavin Brown and artist Jannis Kounellis outside the NYC installation of Untitled (12 Horses). Photographer: Katya Kazakina/Bloomberg Business
The influential art dealer, who is closing his space on a deserted block near the Hudson River, has 12 live horses tethered in a cavernous space that has been the gallery’s home since 2003.
Powerful and graceful, the neighing creatures are part of Untitled (12 Horses), a living art installation by 79-year-old Greek-born, Rome-based artist Jannis Kounellis.
Fastened by ropes to the walls, they are stationed around the perimeter of the gallery. The animals snort, nibble hay, and drink water from black buckets. They also relieve themselves—right onto the gallery floor, covered up with black rubber. Three grooms are on hand to attend to their needs.
The space around them is still, at once peaceful and tense. The air is filled with the tart, earthy scent of a stable. The effect is mesmerizing.
“It’s the right moment and the right place to do this,” said Kounellis, speaking through a translator as he sat on a wooden bench at the gallery on June 25.
“This is not very commercial,” he said. “It’s not for sale.”
The original exhibition at Galleria L'Attico in Rome, 1969 Source: Gavin Brown's Enterprise and Cheim & Read
Roman Debut
Kounellis originally staged the installation at Galleria L’Attico in Rome in 1969. Untitled (12 Horses) has been on view five times in Europe, most recently in Naples in 2006. At Gavin Brown’s, the work makes its North American debut.
“It represents the return to the purity, the innovative moment of the art of a different time when commerce wasn’t so closely associated with a discrete object,” says Adam Sheffer, a partner at Cheim & Read gallery, which represents Kounellis. “This is truly a definition of art for art’s sake.”
The work also marks the end of an era at Gavin Brown’s downtown. The gallery is moving to Harlem, where it will reopen at 461 West 126th Street in September.
Its 12-year tenure on the outskirts of the West Village has been marked by a number of memorable, unorthodox art exhibitions. In 2007, Urs Fischer dug up a giant pit inside the gallery as part of his artwork titled You. In 2011, Rirkrit Tiravanija set up a soup kitchen for his Fear Eats the Soul exhibition.
Around the Clock
Tiravanija is serving food at the gallery again before it closes—it will remain open around the clock until 10 a.m. on June 28. The horses, however, are on display only until 6 p.m. Friday and again from 12 noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday. During the course of the four-day show, the horses return daily to their home on a farm one hour away in upstate New York.
2015, GAvin Brown's enterprise
Untitled (12 Horses) on view at Gavin Brown's Enterprise in NYC. The horses leave daily at 6 p.m.
Even without the horses, vistors can watch ghostly, black-and-white footage of the Empire State Building projected onto a wall. It’s a remake by the artist Elaine Sturtevant of Andy Warhol’s famous one-shot, 6.5-hour-long film Empire.
The hay and water buckets remain along with the scent of the stable. Like the film, the installation feels as if it's an ode to a bygone era.
“It’s a beautiful work, dreamy and evocative,” says RoseLee Goldberg, founding director of Performa, a biennial performance art festival in New York. “It says so much about the period when it was made and about the artists of that generation, profound thinkers who could care less about the marketplace.
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Location: North Dakota | Call me unsophisticated, but modern/performance art is a load of pretentious BS. I find it hilarious that there are some city folks that WILL pay the money and actually attend this, and find it beautiful or inspiring or special in some way.
ETA: I have the perfect addition for their performance art. He's 25 and can fart for like 30 seconds straight (and does so frequently). Talk about a performance!
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | cavyrunsbarrels - 2015-06-27 5:29 PM Call me unsophisticated, but modern/performance art is a load of pretentious BS. I find it hilarious that there are some city folks that WILL pay the money and actually attend this, and find it beautiful or inspiring or special in some way. ETA: I have the perfect addition for their performance art. He's 25 and can fart for like 30 seconds straight (and does so frequently). Talk about a performance!
I just cried laughing and my husband asked what was wrong with me. OMG |
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Location: on my horse | every day I go to my barn I find it beautiful, inspiring, and special. I can see how somebody from a city who has never seen or smelled a real horse might find it almost emotionally overpowering.
However.... I do think its pushing the limits of an art exhibit Now Cavy's farting horse on the other hand... |
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| redmansmyman11 - 2015-06-27 10:21 PM every day I go to my barn I find it beautiful, inspiring, and special. I can see how somebody from a city who has never seen or smelled a real horse might find it almost emotionally overpowering. However.... I do think its pushing the limits of an art exhibit Now Cavy's farting horse on the other hand...
There is a peacefulness to it. As I tell my "city" friends, it takes you away from all the clutter in the world.
I do think it is funny to call this "art" and funny how they describe the display and its implications on the commercialization of art. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Those inter city people are so different, at least they can see a live horse hands on, I'm suprise they dont have cattle on display too. Alot of those people have never seen livestock up close are in person for that matter.
Theres nothing better in this world then to able to get the smells of the country. To me this is very special  |
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Location: Missouri | Three 4 Luck - 2015-06-27 9:21 PM
cavyrunsbarrels - 2015-06-27 5:29 PM Call me unsophisticated, but modern/performance art is a load of pretentious BS. I find it hilarious that there are some city folks that WILL pay the money and actually attend this, and find it beautiful or inspiring or special in some way. ETA: I have the perfect addition for their performance art. He's 25 and can fart for like 30 seconds straight (and does so frequently). Talk about a performance!
I just cried laughing and my husband asked what was wrong with me. OMG
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | Southtxponygirl - 2015-06-28 10:10 AM
Those inter city people are so different, at least they can see a live horse hands on, I'm suprise they dont have cattle on display too. Alot of those people have never seen livestock up close are in person for that matter.
Theres nothing better in this world then to able to get the smells of the country. To me this is very special
Isn't this the truth. I have met several people who believe bacon, chicken and other meats are 'made' in the back rooms of a grocery store too. I wouldn't give up my time spent in the country or barn for the world!
And where is this? I have a person I want to forward it too... My SO's best friend drives me crazy about mine and coming to visit... |
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Location: MD | LMAO! I read this when it came out on horse collaborative. I of course looked around to find what people that aren't comfortable with livestock had to say. Some peoples kids I tell ya. 3 grooms on site, fresh endless water and hay, and long enough lines they can lay down if they wanted too... and people are still throwin a hissy fit? I want to give them my boys and have them pay me to do that! I got a good 30 minutes of belly laughter with my boyfriend reading some peoples uneducated opinions over the matter.
When we posted, "How is this any different from a horse standing in a 12x12 stall overnight?" this lady responded and was telling us how we MUST abuse and mistreat horses and how I'm going to hell!!! WHAT?! I purposefully started trolling after that  |
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Location: North Dakota |  He really is quite the charmer. In response to the other stuff, man am I glad I'm not from the city! City folks just seem so out of touch with nature and how the world really works. It's sad. Still paying $$$ to watch horses stand and eat is mind blowing to me.
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Location: SE Louisiana | Prolly most of them show up just to see how many of them crap on the floor.... and form pools betting on how many "apples" in the next pile... |
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What the heck?!?! All these years I have been missing out