![]() "This sense of the complete freedom of sensibly pure space exerted upon me such a power of attraction that I painted monochrome surfaces to see, with my own eyes to SEE, what was visible in the absolute." Image: bpk Bildagentur / Städel Museum, Frankfurt / Art Resource, NY, Artwork: © 2022 Fondation Lucio Fontana / Artists Rights Society, New York Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale – Attese, 1962-1963. ![]() This full void, this nothing which encloses Everything Possible, this supernatural asthenic silence of color which finally, beyond anecdote and formal pretext, makes the formal grandeur of a Giotto.” iii It is the Blue-King of the most definitive of surmounted frontiers, the Blue of the frescoes of Assisi. ![]() Indeed, it perfectly embodies Pierre Restany’s now famous appreciation of the early IKB monochromes from 1957: “Blue dominates, reigns, lives. The present work maintains the classic dimensions and richly textured surface of the canvases displayed at this groundbreaking exhibition, one of which was notably purchased by Lucio Fontana. Radically departing from the various colored monochromes shown at his first two solo shows in 19, Klein presented 11 IKB monochromes of the same size, vertical orientation, and visual aesthetic at the Milan show, marking the beginning of the artist’s paradigm-shifting Blue Period. Image and Artwork: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisĪmong the earliest of nearly 200 blue monochrome paintings Klein created in his lifetime, Monochrome bleu sans titre (IKB 267) was conceived in the year Klein famously trademarked his signature hue and debuted this revolutionary body of work to the public at the Galleria Apollinaire, Milan. Yves Klein at his exhibition Yves Klein: Proposte monocrome, epoca blu at the Galleria Apollinaire, Milan, 1957. ![]() Teetering between the material and immaterial, the present work testifies to the “idea of absolute unity in perfect serenity” that Klein captured in his legendary investigations with the monochrome which transformed the post-war European landscape. Yielding to a highly textured surface, softly raised ridges catch light as smoother recessions glow like a fluorescent blue sea, manifesting the dynamic incandescence that his color could achieve through his painterly experimentations with surface texture. i Showcasing the signature pigment that became tantamount to the artist’s life and oeuvre, Monochrome bleu sans titre (IKB 267) immerses the viewer into a chromatic expanse of International Klein Blue (IKB). "The real blue was inside, the blue of the profundity of space, the blue of my kingdom, of our kingdom!.the materialization of blue, the colored space that cannot be seen but which we impregnate ourselves with."Įmerging from the seminal year of 1957 when Yves Klein inaugurated his self-proclaimed “Epoque bleue,” the present work belongs to the artist’s historic series of Monochrome bleu paintings that laid the foundation of his legendary career.
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