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Editorial, 2017, Denys Riout

"Bodies, flesh and imprints", by Denys Riout

Having immaterialised blue, having gone beyond the problem of art, can we go any further? Probably not, but going elsewhere is certainly possible. And that's exactly what Klein did. Alongside the monochrome/immaterial pictorial sensibility axis, he never stopped exploring other paths, conquering hitherto unknown domains and inventing possible territories. At the very moment when he deprived the monochrome painting of matter, he gave painting an unexpected physicality. On 5 June 1958, shortly...
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Editorial, 1960, Yves Klein

"I have been painting (...) from models", excerpts from writings

"I have been painting already for several years most often from models and even with the effective collaboration of models. Indeed, for a long time I have wondered why figurative painters or even sometimes abstract painters such as Fautrier, for example, feel the need to paint nudes. To simply seek out a living human form to draw and to copy after nature was not good enough a reason for me; I felt that there must be something else. The nude model brings sensuality into the atmosphere. Careful:...
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Editorial, 1957, Yves Klein

"Judo (...) is the human body's discovery of a spiritual space", excerpts from writings

"When I paint (...) I feel like a Judo champion before the fight".Yves Klein, The Evening Standard, 25 juin 1957"I've often been asked if judo played a role in my pictorial conception. Until now, I've always replied that it didn't. In fact, that's not true. In fact, that's not true: judo has given me a lot, I started almost at the same time as my painting. Both have lived with me as I live with my physical body!Here's what I know about judo:Firstly, a major principle: "have the spirit of...
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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, 1959, Yves Klein

"Blue has no dimensions", excerpts from writings

"Just an adolescent in 1946, I went to sign my name on the underside of the sky during a fantastic realistico-imaginary journey. That day, as I lay on the beach at Nice, I began to hate the birds which occasionally flew in my pure, unclouded blue sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and more beautiful work." Yves Klein, excerpt from the Chelsea Hotel Manifesto, 1961 "In 1955 I exhibited in Paris twenty monochrome paintings of different colors. On that occasion I immediately...
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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...
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