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Editorial, 1960, Yves Klein

"A Man in Space !", extrait de Dimanche 27 novembre 1960 "Le journal d'un seul jour"

A Man in Space !The painter of space leaps into the void! The monochrome man who is also champion of judo, black belt 4th dan, practices regularly dynamic levitation! (with or without a net, at the risk of his life). He claims to be able to join up with his preferred work in space soon: an aerostatic sculpture, composed of one thousand and one blue balloons, which will take off from his exhibition in 1957 into the sky of Saint-Germain-des-Prés never again to return! To liberate sculpture from...
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Editorial, 2022, Damien Sausset

"Leap into the Void", by Damien Sausset

A street in Fontenay-aux-Roses, lined with detached houses. From the top of a wall, a man leaps into the void. A cyclist, indifferent, moves away. The man is Yves Klein. An incredible image that has become an icon of twentieth-century art, this photograph was composed by the artist for the cover of Dimanche, a single-issue daily (27 November 1960) designed to counter the critics and clarify his positions. In it, Klein combines various texts on his transcendence of art and the theatre of the...
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