Freeing sculptures from their pedestal, making them dance like balloons in the cloudless sky and disappear from sight like space rockets towards the infinite, imbue them with transparent air like sponges and become all of a piece with the surrounding empty space: these idées fixes have for a long time been the order of the day in the Agenda of Yves Klein. Many projects, a few patents, few creations, in an unstable and ambiguous balance between utopia and irony, the sublime and the kitsch, the will to create art without works and the legend of the artist with a masterpiece. And a fable, in which the artist abandons the monument of himself to the world of art and becomes a worldly photo-reporter, and goes around recording everything that happens in the life world.
Yves Klein: All what is Solid melts into Air
filippo FIMIANI
2019-01-01
Abstract
Freeing sculptures from their pedestal, making them dance like balloons in the cloudless sky and disappear from sight like space rockets towards the infinite, imbue them with transparent air like sponges and become all of a piece with the surrounding empty space: these idées fixes have for a long time been the order of the day in the Agenda of Yves Klein. Many projects, a few patents, few creations, in an unstable and ambiguous balance between utopia and irony, the sublime and the kitsch, the will to create art without works and the legend of the artist with a masterpiece. And a fable, in which the artist abandons the monument of himself to the world of art and becomes a worldly photo-reporter, and goes around recording everything that happens in the life world.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
