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...

Born in Turin, Elena Palumbo-Mosca met Yves Klein when she was an au pair in Nice at Arman and Eliane Radigue because he was a great friend of the couple. She befriended him and was one of his models."When I am asked to talk about my experience as a "model" of Yves, it is not easy for me now to summarize in a few words the ideas and emotions that I found at the time absolutely normal, and even, I dare say it, natural. It was our way of life, experimenting, seeking and trying to understand the...