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Yves Klein : Propositions monochromes

Exhibition, 14 mai 1957 - 23 mai 1957

Yves Klein : Propositions monochromes

Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris, France
"The Folding Screens – The folding screens make it possible to be enveloped by the blue. In effect, they can be arranged in a semi-circle, in such a way that the reader [lecteur] of the work is placed at the focal point of its radius.Pure Pigments – Pure pigment, exhibited on the ground, became painting itself rather than a hung picture; the fixative medium being the most immaterial...
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Editorial, 1959, Yves Klein

"What pleased me above all were pure pigments in powder form", excerpts from writings

"How do I get there, while still drawing from the pictorial norms that I have constructed? For painting, I have long searched for a fixative medium to expressly fix each grain of pigment that make up the radiant and dazzling mass found in the bins of the merchants of color. It is quite dismaying to see this same pigment, when milled in oil, for example, lose all its brilliance, all its essential vitality. It seems as if mummified; nevertheless, one cannot leave it on the ground, held by the...
Klein - Byars - Kapoor

Exhibition, 30 juin 2012 - 16 déc. 2012

Klein - Byars - Kapoor

MAMAC - Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain de Nice, Nice, France
For the fiftieth anniversary of Yves Klein's disappearance, Nice had to reinterpret this tutelary figure of contemporary art, emblematic of the Côte d'Azur and the museum, by associating it with two other equally charismatic artists.MAMAC therefore organized an exhibition bringing together Yves Klein, (Nice, 1928 - Paris, 1962), an extraordinary personality who has changed the world of art,...
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Editorial, 2017, Denys Riout

"From judo to pictorial sensitivity", by Denys Riout

Yves Klein, born in 1928, grew up in an artistic environment. His father, Fred Klein, a figurative painter, and his mother, Marie Raymond, soon to be known as an abstract painter, frequented many avant-garde figures. The young man, faced with the challenge of becoming a painter without having to choose between his mother's side and his father's tradition, hesitated between several other paths. In 1947, after having given up on a career in the merchant navy, he worked in a shop in Nice where his...
Yves Klein

Exhibition, 26 août 2017 - 14 janv. 2018

Yves Klein

MUAC - Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Yves Klein is the first retrospective in Latin America on the pioneering artist of action art and the immaterial practices of contemporary art. The exhibition charts a course through more than 75 artworks and an extensive selection of documents—letters, drawings, photographs and films—taking in the great variety of facets the artist developed over his short but intense...
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