Rather, it presents the architectural projects and theories of the french conceptual artist in the context of current tendencies toward immateriality in. Parent and his office produced professional architectural designs for kleins concepts, clarifying their utopian aspirations with exquisite delicacy. Air architecture presented, for the first time, yves kleins architectural projects and theories with particular regard for his exploration of the void and its utopian. Sourceyves klein, weitemeier, taschen 1994 portionone page from a medium sized book. The breath of creation rotraut klein moquay body and spirit. The exhibition is made possible by major support from the andy warhol foundation for the visual arts, martha and bruce atwater, and judy dayton. I dreamed and flew through the air with his poems and ideas. Dec 12, 2016 yves klein ikb godet, 1958 yves klein a search for a transcendental blue to sense the soul, without explanation, without words, and to depict this situation this, i believe, is what led me to monochrome painting. The sponge sculptures that klein did produce say something similar to the air sculptures that would never be born. Documenting the fruitful collaboration of yves klein and claude parent through their multiple projects with pneumatic rocket, air architecture, or even the warswaw fountains. Air architecture 01 by peter noever, francois perrin isbn. He then claimed this boundless space by writing his name in the air.
The memorial, an architectural project editions dilecta. He looked up at the azure sky and said, i write my name in the blue. Visitors are able to explore kleins wideranging practice. Yves klein anticipated pop art with his spirit of mockery and fun, but there was more to him than antics, as this rare show reveals. An yves klein table is on the block architectural digest. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Yves klein claude parent the memorial, an architectural project. Yves klein and the birth of the blue the time yves klein spent working in a london frame shop was crucial to his artistic development, so why is it forgotten. We not only live within veritable oceans of these fluids, with their ebbs and flows, their flux and interactions, but have. Yves klein was a french conceptual artist with a wideranging and highly influential practice. As a tribute to yves klein to celebrate what would have been his ninetieth birthday, gagosian shop, paris, presents yves klein.
He made paintings by harnessing air, rain and fire. Rather, it presents the architectural projects and theories of the french conceptual artist in the context of current tendencies toward immateriality in architecture, design, and art. May, 2016 an untitled work by yves klein at the guggenheim museum in bilbao in 2005. The obstacles that traditional architecture used to put up with will be eliminated. Well ive always been a fan of klein and the show this book is. Withdrawn architecture graphics, water architecture. Through a collection of original drawings, works and photos, this book highlights yves klein and claude parents relationship. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. His father, fred klein, a dutchindonesian, worked in a figurative mode, and his mother, marie raymond, a. All you need to know about the international klein blue.
The breath of creation rotraut kleinmoquay body and spirit. The exhibition was guest curated by architect francois perrin, who also designed a sitespecific installation for the schindler house. Do not sell my personal information architectural digest may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our. Yves kleins most popular book is klein taschen basic art. Klein was born in 1928, in nice, the son of two painters. Exhibitions yves klein air architecture yves klein. With the void, full powers is coorganized by the hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden, smithsonian institution, washington, dc, and the walker art center, minneapolis, mn. Air architecture offered an opportunity to consider the artists architectural projects and theories, featuring drawings, texts, photography, sculpture and film from the yves klein archive in paris.
An enormous wooden platter served as a table, and klein, who was also developing ideas for an architecture of the air, involving pneumatic. Just before dying, yves klein told a friend, i am going to go into the biggest studio in the world, and i will only do immaterial works. The publication is the first book devoted exclusively to this aspect of yves klein s art. It was his first work of art, and a gesture that foreshadowed air architecture, a beguiling, infeasible body of work meant to resituate modern life and its denizens in an eden of pure. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Yves klein is for me, and many others, the most important french artist after henri matisse. Yves klein conceptual art new realism blue monochrome bleu sans titre perfectly chaotic yves klein, untitled blue monochrome pouring, 1956 yves klein was the most influential, prominent, and controversial french artist to emerge in the he is remembered above. A new book brings yves kleins parisian apartment to life wsj. A precocious artist, yves klein did not undergo a formal art education. It includes reproductions of drawings and other works as well as essays and lectures on the subject.
One of the last centurys most influential artists, yves klein 19281962 took the. Their meeting, through the air architecture project, shows how creativity linked the artist and the architect. December 2005 the journal of the society of architectural historians. Yves klein contemporary art exhibition july 18october 7, 2018 blenheim palace, woodstock, england yves klein contemporary art exhibition features over fifty artworks, making it the most comprehensive exhibition of yves klein in the united kingdom to date.
Dry pigment and synthetic resin on paper mounted on canvas. Artist yves klein 19281962 and architect claude parent born 1923 first worked together in 1969, on kleins air architecture project. It took french painter jacques majorelle 18861962 forty years of passion and dedication to create this enchanting garden in the heart of the ochre city. Body, colour, immaterial offers an opportunity to reinterpret kleins work, leading off from this declaration, by positioning the blue monochromes in a more complete context, as the first stage in a body of work that uses a foothold in the visible to cross the threshold into the invisible. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. He was a leading member of the french artistic movement of nouveau realisme founded in 1960 by art critic pierre restany. Later in his life, he often called this his greatest and most beautiful work.
For the first time, this aspect of kleins work was the focus of an exhibition organized by the mak center. Yves klein is best known for his trademark ultramarine pigment, which he patented as international klein blue in 1961. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Oct 23, 2016 yves klein anticipated pop art with his spirit of mockery and fun, but there was more to him than antics, as this rare show reveals. Yves klein, excerpt from architecture of air ant 102, 1961, climatizing the surface of our globe, overcoming the problematics of art the writings of yves klein, spring publications, 2007, p. All colors arouse specific ideas, while blue suggests at most the sea and the sky. The artist brings the concept, the architect draws and paints. They were as close as he would ever come to producing aerostatic objects. Museum of modern art photography book architectural digest. Rather, it presents the architectural projects and theories of the french conceptual artist in the context of current tendencies toward. Klein, famous for his ultramarine monochromes, produces works that are interpretations of his ideas on spiritual infinitude and his penchant for mystic rituals. Yves klein, an artist and judo master, was born in nice.
Jeanroy, pierre restany, philippe ungar, yves klein, claude parent. After the prestigious tate liverpool, bozar welcomes the exhibition of the renowned french artist yves klein in the spring of 2017. Through a selection of original drawings, pieces and photographs, the memorial, an architectural project bring to light the intense relationship between yves klein and claude parent. The surface space of this planet is filled with fluidsair and waterwhich we humans have adapted to by both natural and technological means. The memorial, an architectural project english version. Their encounter was made possible by yves kleins air architecture project, which launched a relation full of creativity as the artist conceptualize s, and. Yves klein s walls of fire and water are, along with the roofs of air, the materials for the construction of a new architecture. All in all, the release of 1001 blue balloons reflects various aspects of kleins career and persona.
Drawings and images from bruno taut and yves klein inspired me and lifted me higher and higher, louis sullivan was a nice guest to join in my journey and keep me close to the. It was his first work of art, and a gesture that foreshadowed air architecture, a beguiling, infeasible. Gordon monahans book, seeing sound, is a trilingual, experimental text. In drawings they speculated about building wallfree environments of moving air, with beds cushioned by. The jardin majorelle in marrakech is one of the most visited sites in morocco.
Yves klein claude parent the memorial, an architectural project through a collection of original drawings, works and photos, this book highlights yves klein and claude parents relationship. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as. The book also traces back the memorial project conceived by claude parent for yves klein, shortly after his death, on request of his mother marie raymond and her spouse, the artist rotraut. It may be available from zvab or other secondhand book portals. Legend has it that when yves klein was eighteen years old, he was sunbathing on the beach in nice with his friends when they decided to divide up the world between them. French abstract artist yves kleins brilliant designs incorporated a. I have been searching the internet on information on yves klein and came across this. The color and the conceptual underpinnings for its application, however, are ingrained in specific historical circumstances, which do not dismantle ikb of its aesthetic force.
Blueis beyond dimensions, whereas the other colors are not, he said. Air architecture in the end it is an old dream of mankind and of the imagination to play with the elements of nature, to direct and to control their phenomena and manifestations. Yves klein and the birth of the blue art and design. Air architecture is not about leap into the void, the 1960 photograph of yves klein diving out the second story of a building. Over the course of the next few years, until his untimely death at the age of 34 in 1962, yves klein created nearly 200 monochrome paintings where he used ikb. In 1946 yves klein lay on the beach at nice, an 18yearold on an outing with friends.
Air architecture storefront for art and architecture. Yves klein, alain jacquet, antonio semeraro, insights. Between may 1954 and june 6, 1962, the date of his death, yves klein burned his life to make a flamboyant work that marked his era and still shines today. Additional articles by other authors emphasize the significance of klein s work to the theme of the immaterial. There will be new means of caring for the body such as the air bed. Yves klein and the birth of the blue art and design the. Yves klein claude parent the memorial, an architectural. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. Watercolor was the main media i used to explore the moments of understanding between bachelard and myself. Essays by beatriz colomina, julie carson, sylvere lotringer, peter noever, francois perrin and michael speaks. Shop authentic yves klein furniture and other yves klein furniture from the worlds best dealers.
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