Film, 1960

Anthropometries of the Blue Period

Exhibition, 20 May 2010 - 12 Sep 2010

Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., United States

One of the most influential artists of the last century, Yves Klein (French, born in Nice in 1928 and died in Paris in 1962) stormed the European art scene in a prolific career that lasted only 1954 at 1962. Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers is the first major retrospective of the artist's work in the United States for nearly 30 years. The exhibition is co-organized by the Hirshhorn and the...

Exhibition, 8 Mar 2007 - 3 Jun 2007

Yves Klein Body, Colour and the Immaterial

MUMOK - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria

The subtitle of the exhibition Yves Klein: Body, Color, Intangible focuses on the aspects of Yves Klein's work which reveal it close to the eyes of today's artists, prefiguring conceptual art and performance. The physical involvement of the body is central to the work. The color according to Yves Klein is a link between the body and the immaterial; a true spiritual force, it transforms the...

Exhibition, 5 Oct 2006 - 5 Feb 2007

Yves Klein Corps, couleur, immatériel

Centre Georges Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, France

Bringing together one hundred and twenty paintings and sculptures, about forty drawings and manuscripts of the artist and a large number of films and photographs of time, this exhibition offers a rereading of the work of Yves Klein. As faithful as possible to the artist's statements contained in the recently published writings, the scenography highlights the importance that Yves Klein attributed...

Exhibition, 6 Oct 1995 - 18 Nov 1995

Yves Klein

Art Focus, Zürich, Switzerland

Exhibition, 29 May 1995 - 29 Aug 1995

Yves Klein : Salto en el Vacio

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

This anthological exhibition sets out on a journey through Klein's artistic biography - the work, actions and projects that form the backbone of his oeuvre (the monochromes and sponges, the silence of a single note entitled Monotone-Silence Symphony, the fire paintings, the void in relation to space, the anthropometries and cosmogonies), and outlines his strong desire to explore creative concepts...

Exhibition, 9 Feb 1995 - 23 Apr 1995

Yves Klein, Leap into the void

Hayward Gallery, London, England

Exhibition, 8 Nov 1994 - 8 Jan 1995

Yves Klein, Leap into the void (Der sprung ins Leere)

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Exhibition, 13 Feb 1973 - 24 Mar 1973

Yves Klein

Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, France

Exhibition, 2 Dec 1970 - 31 Dec 1970

Yves Klein

Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAM), Turin, Italy

Exhibition, 19 Jan 1969 - 2 Mar 1969

Yves Klein 1928-1962

Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

Exhibition, 9 Mar 1960

Anthropométries de l'époque bleue

Galerie Internationale d'art contemporain, Paris, France

Book, 2016, Hannah Weitemeier

Yves Klein

In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (1928–1962) declared that “a new world calls for a new man.” With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold artist would go on to pursue a brief but bountiful career, producing more than 1,000 paintings over seven years in an oeuvre now considered a mainstay of postwar modernism.

Klein made his name above all with his large monochrome canvases in his own patented hue of blue. International Klein Blue (IKB), composed of pure pigment and binding medium, is at once rich and luminous, evocative and decorative, and was conceived by Klein as a means of evoking the immateriality and infinitude of the world. The works of this “Blue Revolution” seem to draw us into another dimension, as if hypnotized by a perfect summer sky. Klein was also renowned for his deployment of “living brushes,” in which naked women, daubed in International Klein Blue, would make imprints of their bodies on large sheets of paper.

This Basic Art introduction presents key Klein works to introduce an artist who was at once a showman, inventor, and pioneer of performance art. With page after page of the ever-alluring International Klein Blue, it is both an essential guide to a modern art master and a meditation on the unique effects of a single color.


French :   978-3836553124
English :  978-3836553131
German : 978-3836553100

Book, 2010, Collectif

Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers

During his brief but prolific creative career, Yves Klein (1928-1962) conquered the European art scene. He is considered a pioneer of many avant-garde movements such as Minimal Art, performance and conceptual art. Klein was an innovator who combined painting, sculpture, performance, music, film and theoretical concepts. He took new paths based on his exploration of the philosophy of Judo, the teachings of the Rosicrucians and the philosophical exploration of science and space, accompanied by his quest to achieve immateriality through pure color and emptiness.

The publication includes examples of all major series such as the anthropometrics, the fire pictures and the monochrome pictures. In addition, less well-known works are also considered. Sketches, photographs, letters and writings provide insight into Klein's artistic creative process as well as his conceptual projects.

Book, 2007, Collectif

Yves Klein

Book, 2006, Camille Morineau

Yves Klein Corps, couleur, immatériel

Three themes (impregnation, incarnation and dematerialization) introduced by the blue, the rose and the gold - three colors defined by the artist as being complementary and essential to her work, will allow to approach the work of art. Yves Klein, Louvrage focuses on still unexplored aspects of the artist's work: his relations with artists, his trip to the United States, the perception of the time in France and by American artists.

Book, 1994, Sidra Stich

Yves Klein

Considered the heir to two traditions, the provocative Duchamps and the mystical Malevich, Yves Klein, with his spectacular life and work as the controversial and influential personality of his time, is one of the most exciting artists of the 20th century. For the first time, this book illuminates his work in the context of the dramatic upheavals after the Second World War in the social, philosophical and political fields. The essays not only deal with the works of Yves Klein, but also analyze in detail his ideas, writings, performances and advertising campaigns. From interviews with more than 50 people who knew and worked with Yves Klein, come information that reveals numerous new dates and aspects in the art and life of this dazzling character. His work is also compared with the concepts of other artists, who at that time worked with similar goals as Yves Klein himself in Japan, America, Italy, Germany and France.

Article, 2021, Adèle Van Reeth, Radio France

Are Yves Klein's brushes human ?

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/ouh-la-l-art/les-pinceaux-de-yves-klein-sont-ils-humains-6183033 Against all odds, the answer to this question is: YES. To understand this gesture, you need to bear in mind that Yves Klein was not just the author of famous monochromes or the inventor of the famous blue. He was also the creator of a new method called anthropometry. The name is frightening, but the gesture is simple. Simple and revolutionary: Yves Klein didn't like brushes, which...

Article, 2018, Christian Lund

Testimonial: Yves Klein’s body imprints, told by Rotraut

"That was very interesting for me, that the body and the soul is one in a print.”Naked women as “human paintbrushes” in front of an audience, now considered landmark events in the history of performance art and “the most concentrated expression of vital energy imaginable,” according to the artist behind. In this video, Yves Klein’s widow and collaborator Rotraut shares what it was like to be part of the spectacular events, as a model working with the artist.“Many people understood...