Publication, 2017
Yves Klein Germany
Between 1957 and 1962, the year of his premature death, Yves Klein had a considerable number of exchanges wlth artists and Institutions in the young Federal Republic of Germany.
He spent several months in the Rhineland - in Düsseldorf or Gelsenkirchen - preparing exhibitions and creating new works on site. If we consider only his Sponge Reliefs, hls Air Architecture project or his Fire Paintings, it becomes clear that many of his visual and conceptual innovations were linked to hls experiences over the Rhine, amongst whlch his monumental project for the Foyer of the Gelsenkirchen Opera House - in collaboration with artists from France, Switzerland and Germany, perceived by Klein as the creation of a "European situation".
Far from the saturated and impenetrable Parisian scene, the painter - who nicknamed himself "Yves the Monochrome" - enjoyed unequalled success and recognition that reached their apogee in 1961 at the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld, in what was the biggest solo exhibition of his lifetime. A genuine intermediarv, he built an effective network of contacts and friendships between France and Germany, loyal, in that respect, with the old avant-garde dream of a cosmopolitanism that reaches across frontiers.
After Yves Klein USA, this book, produced in collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives, presents about 250 documents, photographs and correspondences most of them previously unpublished, bearing witness to the close and friendly relationship Yves Klein tied with the German art scene.
Throughout the book, these travels, exchanges and encounters allow the reader to meet artists such as Norbert Kricke, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Günther Uecker, Konrad Klapheck, gallerist Alfred Schmela and Krefeld Museum's Dlrector Paul wember. Antje Kramer-Mallordy's essay and Rotraut Klein-Moquay's words will guide the reader through this cross-border adventure.
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He spent several months in the Rhineland - in Düsseldorf or Gelsenkirchen - preparing exhibitions and creating new works on site. If we consider only his Sponge Reliefs, hls Air Architecture project or his Fire Paintings, it becomes clear that many of his visual and conceptual innovations were linked to hls experiences over the Rhine, amongst whlch his monumental project for the Foyer of the Gelsenkirchen Opera House - in collaboration with artists from France, Switzerland and Germany, perceived by Klein as the creation of a "European situation".
Far from the saturated and impenetrable Parisian scene, the painter - who nicknamed himself "Yves the Monochrome" - enjoyed unequalled success and recognition that reached their apogee in 1961 at the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld, in what was the biggest solo exhibition of his lifetime. A genuine intermediarv, he built an effective network of contacts and friendships between France and Germany, loyal, in that respect, with the old avant-garde dream of a cosmopolitanism that reaches across frontiers.
After Yves Klein USA, this book, produced in collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives, presents about 250 documents, photographs and correspondences most of them previously unpublished, bearing witness to the close and friendly relationship Yves Klein tied with the German art scene.
Throughout the book, these travels, exchanges and encounters allow the reader to meet artists such as Norbert Kricke, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Günther Uecker, Konrad Klapheck, gallerist Alfred Schmela and Krefeld Museum's Dlrector Paul wember. Antje Kramer-Mallordy's essay and Rotraut Klein-Moquay's words will guide the reader through this cross-border adventure.
Editions Dilecta
Publication, 2020
Yves Klein Japon
Avant de devenir Yves le Monochrome, Yves Klein, l’homme du bleu devenu aujourd’hui un mythe, se passionne pour le judo. C’est ce qui le pousse en 1952 à aller jusqu’au Japon, où il obtient sa ceinture noire 4e dan. Quelques mois après son retour en France, à la fin de l’année 1954, Yves Klein publiera d’ailleurs quasi simultanément Les Fondements du judo et Yves Peintures, considéré comme son premier geste d’artiste. Ce long séjour au Japon, nourri de rencontres et de découvertes, marque assurément Yves Klein qui y fait souvent allusion, et continue d’alimenter les interrogations de tous ceux qui s’intéressent à son œuvre. Celle-ci y puiserait-elle sa source ?
À la suite d’Yves Klein USA et Yves Klein Germany, ce livre, préparé en collaboration avec les Archives Yves Klein, retrace ce voyage fondateur à travers plus de 150 documents d’archives dont beaucoup sont inédits – photographies, correspondances et reproductions d’œuvres – éclairés par les textes de Terhi Génévrier-Tausti et de Denys Riout.
Éditions Dilecta
À la suite d’Yves Klein USA et Yves Klein Germany, ce livre, préparé en collaboration avec les Archives Yves Klein, retrace ce voyage fondateur à travers plus de 150 documents d’archives dont beaucoup sont inédits – photographies, correspondances et reproductions d’œuvres – éclairés par les textes de Terhi Génévrier-Tausti et de Denys Riout.
Éditions Dilecta