Exhibition: Into the Void

To paint the following painting, 43 in x 40 in, as 10 feet x 10 feet, then exhibit eight in a large gallery room.

To exhibit eight 10 foot by 10 foot minimal black paintings in a large white gallery room with 12/15 foot high and 40 to 50 foot long walls.

Then exhibit the paintings in a matte mid red/black gallery room.

Then exhibit the paintings in a primary cad yellow gallery room.

Then exhibit the paintings in a primary mid ultramarine gallery room.

Then exhibit the paintings in a primary mid cad red gallery room.

Then exhibit the paintings in a mid matte grey gallery room.

Then exhibit the paintings in a mid magenta gallery room.

Then exhibit the paintings in a mid green gallery room.

Yves Klein Into the Void # 1 , Acrylic on canvas, 40 in x 40 in, 2016

Yves Klein Into the Void # 2 , Acrylic on canvas, 40 in x 40 in, 2016

Yves Klein Into the Void # 3 , Acrylic on canvas, 40 in x 40 in, 2016

Yves Klein Into the Void # 4 , Acrylic on canvas, 40 in x 40 in, 2016

Yves Klein Into the Void # 5 , Acrylic on canvas, 40 in x 40 in, 2016

Yves Klein Into the Void # 6 , Acrylic on canvas, 40 in x 40 in, 2016

Yves Klein Into the Void # 7 , Acrylic on canvas, 40 in x 40 in, 2016

Yves Klein Into the Void # 8 , Acrylic on canvas, 40 in x 40 in, 2016

Artist Statement

This exhibition is an exploration of Yves Klein’s work, Into the Void, where he leaps of a wall in a photo. A void is a sometimes an empty space or full space. It is an act, It is an idea. It is an expression. A void can not exist without something that is not a void. The void is an existential and romantic and idealist notion. I am painting the void, which is impossible, as the void can never be represented.

Leap into the Void

Artistic action by Yves Klein French
Photographed by Harry Shunk German
Photographed by János (Jean) Kender Hungarian
1960

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/266750

Leap into the Void

Artistic action by Yves Klein French
Photographed by Harry Shunk German
Photographed by János (Jean) Kender Hungarian
1960

Not on view

As in his carefully choreographed paintings in which he used nude female models dipped in blue paint as paintbrushes, Klein’s photomontage paradoxically creates the impression of freedom and abandon through a highly contrived process. In October 1960, Klein hired the photographers Harry Shunk and Jean Kender to make a series of pictures re-creating a jump from a second-floor window that the artist claimed to have executed earlier in the year. This second leap was made from a rooftop in the Paris suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses. On the street below, a group of the artist’s friends from held a tarpaulin to catch him as he fell. Two negatives–one showing Klein leaping, the other the surrounding scene (without the tarp)–were then printed together to create a seamless “documentary” photograph. To complete the illusion that he was capable of flight, Klein distributed a fake broadsheet at Parisian newsstands commemorating the event. It was in this mass-produced form that the artist’s seminal gesture was communicated to the public and also notably to the Vienna Actionists.