A man in a neat black suit leaped over the roof on a fall afternoon in 1960 - he is Yves Klein. Following that, it appeared to him and many others in the art world to be a leap of faith. The seasoned artist's job-hopping spiraled out of control, sending him flying into the void.
Yves Klein requested that the photographer take a processed shot, removing the protection and promising to keep it a secret.
Curators likened the pictures to the Tate Britain's exhibition "Performance for cameras" as the beginning of the complete display in February 2016.
"Today, a painter in the air must genuinely go into the air to paint, and must not play tricks, no false, no plane, no parachute or rocket, should be daring, by the individual's spontaneous efforts," Klein commented in the newspaper that later published the shot.
In other words, he must be able to float.
"I am a painter in the air, not an abstract painter, but a figurative realist stated Klein. To be honest, I have to be there, in the air, to draw the air."
Leap Into the Void, by Yves Klein, was originally performed in the artists' single-day newspaper Dimanche, which was published at newsstands around Paris on Sunday, November 27th, 1960. On the same day, at 11 a.m., Klein held a news conference at Galerie Rive Driote to announce the project. Klein's visual works and words, including the manifesto - Theatre of the Void, were presented on the four-page broadside.
by Katherine LK. , Artpendix Press
Published 30th Oct 2021
Los Angeles, CA
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