Artwork

Sunday, November 27th, 1960 "The Newspaper of a Single Day"

Exhibition, 1 oct. 2022 - 5 mars 2023

The Timeless Imagination of Yves Klein - Uncertainty and the Immateriality

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

Centered around the work of French artist Yves Klein, active in the 1950s and 1960s, the exhibition also features other artists of his era, including artists of Italian Spatialism and the Japanese Gutai movement, as well as other more contemporary artists, in order to highlight the common theme of "immateriality" found in their work. In the post-war context, which could be described as a "tabula...

Exhibition, 21 juin 2019 - 3 nov. 2019

Yves Klein - Des cris bleus

Musée Soulages, Rodez, France

In 2006, the architect of the "oblique function" Claude Parent remembered Yves Klein:"... It can not be said that he was a tenant of utopia. I think he's an inventor of a different world that has such deep relationships with the past as with what may come next. No chaos at Yves monochrome, but a great desire to invent; the field of the possible is open. Yves Klein stands among the first to put...

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...

Exhibition, 24 juin 2017 - 15 oct. 2017

A propos de Nice. 1947-1977

MAMAC - Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain de Nice, Nice, France

In Nice, one day in the summer of 1947, three young men promise to share the world: Yves Klein, future master of the IKB appropriates the blue infinity of the sky; the poet Claude Pascal seizes the air and returns to Arman, future maestro of the appropriation of objects, the earth and its riches. From this mythical and casual pact, is born a constellation of flashes, gestures and encounters that...

Exhibition, 18 mars 2017 - 31 juil. 2017

Yves Klein - Retrospectiva

PROA Fundación, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Proa Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina presents Yves Klein's first major retrospective in Latin America.The exhibition presents more than 70 works and shows an artist who constantly blurs the lines between art and life, between painting and performance, between objects and ideas.Curator : Daniel Moquay

Exhibition, 17 mai 2015 - 4 oct. 2015

Art on Camera: Photographs by Shunk-Kender, 1960-1971

MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States

The photographers Harry Shunk (German, 1924–2006) and János Kender (Hungarian, 1937–2009) worked together under the name Shunk-Kender from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, based first in Paris and then in New York. Shunk-Kender photographed artworks, events, and landmark exhibitions of avant-garde movements of the era, from Nouveau réalisme to Earth art. They...

Exhibition, 9 août 2014 - 30 nov. 2014

Yves Klein / David Hammons

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, United States

An unprecedented coupling of two of the most significant artists of our time, "David Hammons Yves Klein / Yves Klein David Hammons" explores points of aesthetic harmony within two seemingly different practices. Weaving a larger narrative through Hammons’s Basketball and Kool-Aid Drawings, Klein’s Fire Paintings and Monochromes, to both artist’s exploration of performance and...

Exhibition, 20 mai 2010 - 12 sept. 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, 30 sept. 2007 - 6 janv. 2008

Declaring Space: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, United States

"Declaring Space" includes works by four artists whose images had a dramatic effect on the complex development of space and color in abstract painting as it evolved in the years following World War II. The works of these artists do not represent a movement as much as a dramatic evolution of what has come to be thought of as "the field," an often misunderstood term in the vocabulary of postwar...

Exhibition, 8 avril 2006 - 9 juil. 2006

Zero - Internationale Künstler-Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre

Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany

The Kunst Palast Museum is dedicating a complete international retrospective to one of the most important avant-garde movements since the spring of 2006. The Zero movement revolutionized post-war art with a new language of images and images. forms: pictorial sequences in series, vibrant light structures and dynamic spatial constructions have replaced the traditional composition.In the exhibition,...

Exhibition, 18 nov. 1960 - 15 déc. 1960

Festival d'Art d'Avant-Garde

Pavillon américain de la Porte de Versailles, Paris, France

Editorial, 2022, Damien Sausset

"Leap into the Void", by Damien Sausset

A street in Fontenay-aux-Roses, lined with detached houses. From the top of a wall, a man leaps into the void. A cyclist, indifferent, moves away. The man is Yves Klein. An incredible image that has become an icon of twentieth-century art, this photograph was composed by the artist for the cover of Dimanche, a single-issue daily (27 November 1960) designed to counter the critics and clarify his positions. In it, Klein combines various texts on his transcendence of art and the theatre of the...

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...