Publication, 2009
Yves Klein USA
This book, was made possible thanks to a collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives. For the first time ever a book shows through various images the story of the relationship between Yves Klein (1928-1962) and the USA : fascination, mutual influence, successful or missed encounters, exchanges, travels...
Many documents, often unpublished before, demonstrate through photographs or letters, four important steps (Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Paris) during which Klein forged links with the United States. Flipping through those pages, many important figures of the American artistic scene are evoked: Leo Castelli, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Virginia Dwan, Ed Kienholz...
This exceptional album opens with an interview with Rotraut Klein-Moquay who shares her memories of her trip with Yves Klein to the United States in 1961, followed by a chronology of Yves Klein's work.
It also presents an original essay by the American art historian Robert Pincus-Witten, who met personally the protagonists of this adventure.
This book, essential in the 20th century art history, also holds several unseen documents in their entirety such as the Chelsea Hotel Manifesto.
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Many documents, often unpublished before, demonstrate through photographs or letters, four important steps (Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Paris) during which Klein forged links with the United States. Flipping through those pages, many important figures of the American artistic scene are evoked: Leo Castelli, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Virginia Dwan, Ed Kienholz...
This exceptional album opens with an interview with Rotraut Klein-Moquay who shares her memories of her trip with Yves Klein to the United States in 1961, followed by a chronology of Yves Klein's work.
It also presents an original essay by the American art historian Robert Pincus-Witten, who met personally the protagonists of this adventure.
This book, essential in the 20th century art history, also holds several unseen documents in their entirety such as the Chelsea Hotel Manifesto.
Éditions Dilecta
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.
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Publication, 2020
Yves Klein Japan
Before he became Yves le Monochrome, Yves Klein, the man in blue who has become a myth, had a passion for judo. In 1952, this led him to Japan, where he obtained his 4th dan black belt. A few months after his return to France, at the end of 1954, Yves Klein published almost simultaneously Les Fondements du judo and Yves Peintures, considered his first artistic gesture. This long stay in Japan, nourished by encounters and discoveries, undoubtedly left its mark on Yves Klein, who often alludes to it, and continues to fuel the questions of all those interested in his work. Could it be the source of his work?
Following on from Yves Klein USA and Yves Klein Germany, this book, prepared in collaboration with the Archives Yves Klein, retraces this seminal journey through over 150 archive documents, many of them previously unpublished - photographs, correspondence and reproductions of works - illuminated by texts by Terhi Génévrier-Tausti and Denys Riout.
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Following on from Yves Klein USA and Yves Klein Germany, this book, prepared in collaboration with the Archives Yves Klein, retraces this seminal journey through over 150 archive documents, many of them previously unpublished - photographs, correspondence and reproductions of works - illuminated by texts by Terhi Génévrier-Tausti and Denys Riout.
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