Photo, 1958

First experience of "Living Brushes" at Robert Godet's apartment

Photo, 1958

First experience of "Living Brushes" in Robert Godet's apartment

Exhibition, 23 oct. 2024 - 14 avril 2025

The Overwhelming Power of Colour

Musée Matisse Nice, Nice, France

A dialogue with Yves Klein in the collection of the Nice Matisse MuseumUntil the end of his life, Matisse has been searching for “something beyond real space” and challenging the conventions of traditional painting. With his paper cut-outs, he embraces an artistic radicalism that transcends all pre-existing frameworks during a time when technical progress in aviation “led to a new...

Exhibition, 28 oct. 2022 - 26 mars 2023

Yves Klein, Intime

Hôtel de Caumont, Aix-en-Provence, France

The exhibition "Yves Klein, Intime" presents, for the first time in Aix-en-Provence, some sixty works (of which almost ten were never seen before) by the artist from Nice from a new angle. Until now, attention has rarely been focused on the links between his own life and his bold, radical and broadly accessible creations. By looking back at the artist's family background and circle of friends,...

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, 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,...

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, 23 sept. 2000 - 10 janv. 2001

Yves Klein, "La vita, la vita stessa che é l'arte assoluta"

Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

120 works by Yves Klein were admired in the rooms of the Luigi Pecci Center. Subdivided into sections they started from the "Monochrome" years of the beginning of the 50's and to arrive at the "New Realism" in 62. Touching the different stages of his artistic career as "the Blue Age", the "Pneumatic", the " Anthropometries ", that of" Fire Paintings "," Cosmogonies "and" Monogold ". From its...

Exhibition, 28 avril 2000 - 4 sept. 2000

Yves Klein, "La vie, la vie elle-même qui est l'art absolu"

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

The exhibition Yves Klein, inaugurated on the anniversary of his birth, April 28, is the first retrospective dedicated in France to the artist from Nice since the great exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art-Center Georges Pompidou in 1983. The choice of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Nice has naturally imposed itself to celebrate the year 2000 by the presentation of an...

Exhibition, 5 juin 1958

First experience of "living brushes"

Appartement de Robert Godet 9, rue Le-Regrattier, Île Saint-Louis, Paris, France

"Having had rejected brushes as too excessively psychological already earlier, I painted with rollers, in order to be remain anonymous and at a distance between the canvas and myself during the execution, at least intellectually … Now, what a miracle, the brush returned, but this time it is alive: it was the flesh itself that applied the color to the canvas, under my direction, with a perfect...

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...

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...