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Air Architecture

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Editorial, 2013, Christelle Lecœur

"The Pneumatic Rocket, a rocket to space project", by Christelle Lecoeur

"At the turn of the 1950s, Yves Klein’s interest turned to speed, as was the case with many other artists, including Georges Mathieu. In 1958, at the height of the Russo-American space race, when the first Sputnik and Explorer satellites were launched, Klein, in whose work space played a central role, conceived a rocket “which accelerates by progressive pulsations, ad infinitum.” Made to travel through space, it would convey no information, carry no travellers and have no destination. Its...

Anthropometries

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Editorial, 2012, Frédéric Prot

"The "Great Blue Anthropophagy", (ANT 76), by Frédéric Prot

"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...

Cosmogonies

Fire Paintings

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Editorial, 1983, Catherine Millet

Fire paintings, by Catherine Millet

The influence of alchemy restores to the artist a mastery of the universe that the ways of modern painting had thus made him lose. Yves Klein has emerged as the ultimate demiurge artist. From 1951, visiting the gardens of Granja near Madrid, Klein imagines in front of the basins and their water jets, what would be these same fountains spitting fire. The idea will be repeated in 1958 as part of a collaboration with the artist Norbert Kricke, then in 1961 with Claude Parent. The last project was...
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Editorial, 2012, Rotraut, Frédéric Prot

"Untitled Coloured Fire Painting", (FC 1) by Frédéric Prot

“The deepest thing in man is his skin.” (Valery)The horizon is the most distant point where earth and sky seem to be welding their depth in order to be one. In the same way, when the skin is squeezed, it bears one off to its buried domain, its reserve of power. Of this feeling, Yves Klein obtained an impossible image of this sensation.In 1961, in the workshops of the Centre d'Essai de Gaz de France, a naked model, dripping with water, rolled over cardboard, imprinting her flesh. The model...
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Editorial, 2021, Frédéric Prot

Fire paintings, by Frédéric Prot

Making new beauties out of its audacity. Paintings of fire! It was in March and July 1961 that Yves Klein finally carried out his project. The Centre d'Essai de Gaz de France, in Saint-Denis, agreed to provide him with the necessary workshops and equipment. More than 150 works on cardboard were produced.The films and archive photographs show Yves Klein with the torch in his hands. A white, liquid fire blows. The flames melt on the cardboard and spread.When it is all over, it is there, in front...

Gelsenkirchen Opera Theater

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Editorial, 2020, Frédéric Migayrou

"The Gelsenkirchen opera house", by Frédéric Migayrou

At the time of his exhibition at the Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf in May 1957, Klein made contact with the members of the ZERO group, including Norbert Kricke. Kricke invited him to take part in a competition for an artistic intervention at the opera-theatre in Gelsenkirchen.Werner Ruhnau, the architect for the project, had met Klein in Paris a month earlier at the ‘Norbert Kricke’ exhibition at the Iris Clert gallery, and a year after he had been commissioned by the theatre and opened...

Immaterial

Monochromes

Monopinks

Monotone-silence Symphony

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