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Editorial, 1958, Yves Klein

Yves Klein, Speech to the Gelsenkirchen Theater Commission, read by Werner Ruhnau, November 1958

Ladies and Gentlemen,As I prepare to realize the commission that I am so honored to have received from you for the lobby of the new theater of Gelsenkirchen, I wish to express to you some of my ideas and conceptions about painting, in order to explain to you, who have entrusted my art with your confidence, some of the reasons why I believe that the entire group of works that I am setting out to create should be in blue, uniformly in blue everywhere, and not consist of lateral panels in blue...
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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...
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