Yves Klein (Nice, 1928 –París, 1962) has a pioneering role in the understanding of art as a unified adventure with thought and life, defining the spin of Modern art in the second half of the last century. The enormous influence of his short but prolific career explains that Klein is a authentic legend: one of the founding mythologies of contemporary history. In just eight years (1954-1962) Yves …
Yves Klein (Nice, 1928 –París, 1962) has a pioneering role in the understanding of art as a unified adventure with thought and life, defining the spin of Modern art in the second half of the last century. The enormous influence of his short but prolific career explains that Klein is a authentic legend: one of the founding mythologies of contemporary history. In just eight years (1954-1962) Yves Klein addressed several vectors redeveloped by recent art: the constant reinvention of monochrome, the progression of artistic process strategies, the questioning of artistic materiality, the …