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Article, 2012, Frédéric Prot

"On Judo, Considered As One of the Fine Arts", excerpt from the book by Frédéric Prot Incandescence

Yves Klein had already been practicing Judo for five years when he arrived in Yokohama in September 1952. He was to refine his technique in the famous Kōdōkan in Tokyo over a period of several months. In February 1954, he finally returned to Europe with a rare 4th Dan black belt, obtained on December 18, 1953. His Judo continued to develop throughout his work, as he Yves Klein points out a formal and spiritual analogy between the writhings Robert Godet hosted the first anthropometric meeting...
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Article, 2012, Elena Palumbo-Mosca

"Yves Klein Anthropometries", interview by Elena during an exhibition at Tate Modern, London

TateShots talked to Elena Palumbo-Mosca, who modelled for Klein, and who appears in footage of one such performance which was shown in the exhibition "A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance", at Tate Modern, London, 2012.Yves Klein’s anthropometry events were one of the key events in the history of painting and performance. They really mark a shift from painting as something that happens on the canvas to artists exposing the making of painting."I met Yves when I was working and living in...
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Article, 2006, Alain Bouzerand

"Beyond blue, the chromatic trilogy", text by Alain Bouzerand, extract from the book "Yves Klein, au-delà du bleu"

ONE, TWO, THREE... COLOURSIn Yves Klein's imagination and symbolism, three colours are at the zenith: blue, gold and pink. These are the three colours of the ex-voto made for Saint Rita of Cascia, the patron saint of desperate causes. They are also the colours of the three obelisks and many monochromes. In traditional symbolism, blue, the favourite colour of most Westerners, is a call to escape to wide open spaces, the sky and the sea. Zeus' favourite colour in Antiquity, by the end of the...
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Article, 2004, Philippe Vergne

"Mondo Cane Shroud", (ANT SU 8 I), text by Philippe Vergne

Half shaman, half showman, a judo champion who “leapt into the void,” a mystic devoted to Saint Rita and self-identified as the painter of space who plotted an ultramarine blue revolution, an architect who dreamed of walls of fire and roofs of air, Yves Klein took the European art scene by storm through a career that barely lasted eight years (1954–1962). After that, it was impossible to look at painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, and music the same way, so intense was...
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Article, 1960, Yves Klein

"Yves the Monochrome 1960. Truth Becomes Reality", excerpts from writings

… Leaving my mark beyond myself, I have done it! When I was a child … My hands and my feet dunked in paint, then applied to a surface, and there it was, I was there, face to face with my own psyche. I had proof of having five senses, of knowing how to make myself function! Then I lost my childhood … just like everyone else (one must have no illusions about that). Repeating that little game as an adolescent, I very quickly encountered nothingness. I did not like nothingness, and this is...
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Article, 2018, Christian Lund

Yves Klein’s body imprints, testimonial by Rotraut on the occasion of an exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

"That was very interesting for me, that the body and the soul is one in a print.”Naked women as “human paintbrushes” in front of an audience, now considered landmark events in the history of performance art and “the most concentrated expression of vital energy imaginable,” according to the artist behind. In this video, Yves Klein’s widow and collaborator Rotraut shares what it was like to be part of the spectacular events, as a model working with the artist.“Many people understood...
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Article, 2012, Frédéric Prot

"The "Great Blue Anthropophagy", (ANT 76), text by Frédéric Prot, excerpt from the book Incandescence

"In 1960, he created a huge anthropometry on paper glued to a backing board, the Grande anthropophagie bleue. Hommage à Tennessee Williams. The work appears like the tangled swirls of the great battle the model joined on its surface. With the blue which covered over her body’s prints? Some time before, Yves Klein had seen Joseph Mankiewicz’s film, Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), based on the play of the same title by Tennessee Williams. He was struck by one scene in particular. It takes...
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