The sky as a workshop - The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue
illustrated which places the work of Yves Klein in its historical context and highlights
perspective the sources of inspiration and the permeability between his research and
those of German, Italian and Japanese contemporaries. \nUnpublished essays
art historians develop the main themes of
the exhibition. Emma Lavigne, president of the Palais de Tokyo and curator of
The exhibition explores the quest for immaterial sensitivity that runs through the
performative dimension of Yves Klein's work and in particular
his Diary of a Day. Luca Massimo Barbero, director of the Institute of History
of the Giorgio Cini Foundation and associate curator of the collection
Peggy Guggenheim of Venice examines Lucio Fontana's central role in
the approach to space among artists of this period. Yuko Hasegawa,
artistic director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), discusses the
relations between Yves Klein and the aesthetics of the Japanese avant-gardes around
the concept of emptiness. Antje Kramer-Mallordy, lecturer at the University
Rennes 2, analyzes the unifying role of exhibitions in collaboration between
Yves Klein and the ZERO movement. \nFrédéric Migayrou, deputy director of the Museum
National Museum of Modern Art in charge of industrial creation, questions
Yves Klein's emblematic Architecture of Air, a project for a conquest of
space through sensitivity, with regard to the architectural utopias of
the post-war period. \nAmong the authors who contribute their expertise to this work
by analyzing the specific intersections of the works of Yves Klein and certain
Among his peers, we find in particular Valérie Da Costa, Hélène Guenin, Noémi Joly,
Giovanni Lista, Florence de Mèredieu, Aomi Okabe, Sophia Sotke or Dominique
Stella.
