Editorial, 1983, Catherine Millet
Fire paintings, by Catherine Millet
The influence of alchemy restores to the artist a mastery of the universe that the ways of modern painting had thus made him lose. Yves Klein has emerged as the ultimate demiurge artist. From 1951, visiting the gardens of Granja near Madrid, Klein imagines in front of the basins and their water jets, what would be these same fountains spitting fire. The idea will be repeated in 1958 as part of a collaboration with the artist Norbert Kricke, then in 1961 with Claude Parent. The last project was...
