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, 8 mars 2007 - 3 juin 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 févr. 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...