Courtesy of Millon. Publisher. Apr 9, 2014 - Conceptual Art, Minimalism-Monochrome, Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme. Yves Klein did the empty gallery. The family divided their time between Nice and Paris. Yves Klein. For his 1958 exhibition Le Vide (The Void) at the Iris Clert Gallery nearly 3,000 people stood in line to see his latest work — a completely empty gallery. He showed me The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception. He sold air, and that was a conceptualized art, I guess. Yves Klein re-invents the monochrome as an icon for the end of art, but for him the end of art is not a line which is to be crossed. Yves Klein is best known for his trademark ultramarine pigment, which he patented as International Klein Blue in 1961. Klein was known as an eternal provocateur. In 1957 Yves Klein released 1,001 blue balloons in the Paris sky as a way to announce his exhibition at Galerie Iris Clert and to … To further his artistic vision of the immaterial, Klein created Le Vide (The Void), removing everything from the Iris Clert Gallery except for an empty cabinet. MAISON ET GALERIE D’ÉDITIONS. There are no more items in your cart. Klein also created a dramatic entrance for the opening ceremony, in which visitors were welcomed into the empty room. 54. Yves Klein was born 2 April 1928, in Nice, France – the child of two artists. French, 1928–1962 • Follow. While partially reprising Klein's show of absence, Robert Irwin's Experimental Situation, (Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, 1970) is a far more tentative engagement with empty space notionally filled with the presence of the artist.
The work was called The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State into Stabilzed Pictorial Sensibility, The Void, a snappy title if ever there was one. Childhood and Early Life. Lured by an elaborate publicity campaign, around 3,000 guests turned up to a gallery in Paris, its entrance framed by theatrical blue curtains. Image rights. It was in 1958 at Iris Clert Gallery in Paris that Yves Klein first exhibited an empty gallery space. Exhibitions of the artist at the gallery include Yves Klein: A Career Survey (2005) and Audible Presence: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Cy Twombly (2013), which was accompanied by the first New York performance of Symphonie Monotone-Silence to a vast audience at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in September 2013 to critical acclaim. Sculpture. Books It was about the idea that nothing and something are collaborative forces. The exhibition Yves Klein. He called the empty spaces Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility. “Blue…is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colors are not,” he said. His perspective is strictly artistic: the end of art is the ultimate stage of art history; it is a space rather than a point. Yves Klein is best known for his trademark ultramarine pigment, which he patented as International Klein Blue in 1961. ’Nouveau réaliste’ Yves Klein (1928-1962) presented it at the Iris Clert gallery in Paris from April 28 to May 15 1958. For The Void (1958), he presented an empty gallery as an artwork, wearing a white tie and tails to show visitors around the blank walls.
At his 1958 exhibition at Paris's Galerie Iris Clert – ambitiously titled The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State of Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility, or "The Void" – more than 2,500 guests lined the streets as Klein ushered in just ten persons at a time. (Empty Gallery… His mother, Marie, was … The opening night was in itself a memorable happening. In 1958 Yves Klein staged an exhibition that had nothing in it. When they went inside, they found themselves in a white room that was totally empty. Yves Klein's Romanticism.