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Yves Klein, IKB 191, 1962. Although Klein had painted monochromes as early as 1949, and held the first private exhibition of this work in 1950, his first public showing was the publication of the artist's book Yves Peintures in November 1954.
It is the main venue for temporary art exhibitions in Frankfurt. [4] Exhibitions included retrospectives of Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Bill Viola, and Yves Klein. The Kunsthalle opened in 1986 and is financially supported by the city and the state.
Yves Peintures (Eng: Yves Paintings) is an artist's book by the French artist Yves Klein, originally published in Madrid, on 18 November 1954. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This publication was Klein's first public gesture as an artist, featuring pages of 'commercially printed papers' [ 3 ] that were seemingly reproductions of paintings that, in fact, didn't exist.
Nouveau Réalisme Manifesto signed by all original members in Yves Klein's apartment at 14, rue Campagne-Première on October 27th, 1960 Travailleurs Communistes by Raymond Hains Nouveau réalisme (French for "new realism") is an artistic movement founded in 1960 by the art critic Pierre Restany [ 1 ] and the painter Yves Klein during the first ...
Berggruen has curated a number of international exhibitions, such as a retrospective of Yves Klein at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and one of Beatrice Caracciolo at the French Academy in Rome. [13] He is a contributor to the Huffington Post, for which he writes articles on art, literature, and philosophy. [14]
Yves Klein and Iris Clert first met in December 1955, when the still unknown artist approached Clert in her newly opened gallery, attempting to solicit his monochrome artwork. Klein persuaded Clert to keep one of his paintings, a small orange monochrome, as a trial run. She displayed the monochrome in the corner of the one-room gallery.
IKB 79 is a painting by French artist Yves Klein, made in 1959. It is one of his monochrome series of around 200. It uses a shade of blue that he developed, International Klein Blue, based on the pigment ultramarine. The painting has the dimensions of 139.7 by 119.7 cm. It is held at the Tate Modern, in London. [1] [2]
Paul Nyzam, in the Yves Klein website states: "With their absorptive and highly material 'living' sponges affixed to a monochrome plane of colour, Klein's sponge-reliefs are the quintessential (ultramarine International Klein Blue) but within the context of Klein's spiritual trinity of colour, the corporeal, material colour of rose or pink ...