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Editorial, 1958, Yves Klein

Yves Klein, "My Position in the Battle Between Line and Color", article from the ZERO group magazine

Paris, 16 April 1958 For my part, the art of painting consists in liberating the first state of matter. Ordinary painting, painting as it is commonly understood, is a prison window, whose lines, contours, forms, and composition are all determined by bars. For me the lines concretize our mortality, our emotional life, our reason, and even our spirituality. They are our psychological boundaries, our historic past, our skeletal framework; they are our weaknesses and our desires, our faculties, and...
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Editorial, 2022, Didier Semin

"Yves Paintings", by Didier Semin

Yves Klein's very first works were fictional catalogues, produced in 1954 with the help of Fernando Franco de Sarabia (a friend of Klein's father who worked as a printer in Madrid, where he had enabled the artist to teach judo that year): Yves, peintures and Haguenault, peintures.As we know, these are two booklets of fine paper, folded into pages measuring around 25 × 20 cm, on which are pasted ten rectangles of tinted paper, of different colours and proportions, sometimes with a handwritten...
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