Exhibition, 29 mars 2017 - 20 août 2017

Yves Klein - Theatre of the Void

BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium

After the prestigious Tate Liverpool, BOZAR welcomes the exhibition of the renowned French artist Yves Klein in the spring of 2017. Klein, famous for his ultramarine monochromes, produces works that are interpretations of his ideas on spiritual infinitude and his penchant for mystic rituals. His exceptional visual pieces and spectacular performances were forerunners of the happening and body art....

Exhibition, 21 oct. 2016 - 5 mars 2017

Yves Klein -Theatre of the Void

Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England

Yves Klein’s (1928-1962) career was marked by extraordinary creativity.  His bold attitude to art and life influenced later generations of artists and foresaw important artistic movements including pop, conceptual, installation and performance art. Presenting around 40 major works the exhibition throws fresh light on his artistic practice.Embracing...

Exhibition, 22 oct. 2014 - 15 mars 2015

Yves Klein Lucio Fontana Milano Parigi 1957-1962

Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy

The research of these two artists engages in a dialogue along the exhibition route, arranged according to a precise biographical, historical and philological reconstruction. The display thus compares their main works via thematic and visual juxtapositions, staged with specially designed exhibition solutions.The exhibition is dedicated to Yves Klein (1928-1962) and Lucio Fontana (1899-1968).Their...

Exhibition, 18 sept. 2013 - 16 nov. 2013

Audible Presence : Lucio Fontana Yves Klein Cy Twombly

Levy Gorvy Gallery New York, New York, United States

Spanning a thirty year period, "Audible Presence" reveals moments of conceptual and formal resonance between carefully selected works of art by Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and Cy Twombly. While the monochromatic surfaces on view – cut, pressed, burned, inscribed, or otherwise violated – reflect distinct dynamic, sensual, and romantic approaches to abstraction, they emerged from a...

Exhibition, 31 janv. 2005 - 2 mai 2005

Yves Klein

Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

This comprehensive retrospective of Yves Klein's career encompasses his earliest monochrome paintings in red, pink, orange, yellow, green, white, and black; the famous blue monochromes, sponge reliefs, and sponge sculptures; the Anthropometries; the Monogolds; and his late experiments with the natural elements fire, air, and water. Klein's groundbreaking work, created over only about seven years,...

Exhibition, 15 sept. 2004 - 8 janv. 2005

Yves Klein

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

The compre­hen­sive retro­spec­tive presented by the Schirn includes more than 100 works from all periods of his work: his first mono­chromes in orange, yellow, green, pink, black, and white, his famous blue mono­chromes, as well as his sponge reliefs and sculp­tures, his much-discussed “Anthro­pome­tries,” for which he used female models as...

Exhibition, 2 janv. 1957 - 12 janv. 1957

Yves Klein. Proposte monocrome, epoca Blu

Galleria Apollinaire, Milan, Italy

Unfortunately, it became apparent from the responses to that occasion, and especially during a debate organized at the Colette ALLENDY Gallery, that many of the spectators were prisoners of a conditioned way of seeing and remained sensitive to the relationships between the different propositions (relationships of colors, of intensities, of dimensions and architectural integration), reconstituting...

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...