Yves Klein, Intime, Hôtel de Caumont, Aix-en-Provence
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Produced in collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives, the ‘Yves Klein, intime’ exhibition presents, for the first time in Aix-en-Provence, around sixty works by the great artist from Nice from an original angle. While the public nature of Klein's work is deliberately spectacular, even mythical, the exhibition explores the personal and intimate dimension that complements it.
Yves Klein is undoubtedly one of the most famous French artists of the second half of the twentieth century. Since his untimely death in 1962 at the age of 34, his work has gone from strength to strength. The deep, luminous blue that he patented, the famous IKB (International Klein Blue), is known far beyond the circle of art lovers.
As a result, the artist has had numerous exhibitions highlighting various aspects of his prolific and varied oeuvre, developed over just eight years of flamboyant work. Until now, however, attention has rarely focused on the links between his own life and his creations, which are bold, radical and aimed at a wide audience.
By looking back at the artist's family origins and circle of friends, his place of work and his relationship with his models, the exhibition aims to highlight the material conditions of his work, the artist's intellectual reflections, his spiritual dimension, and the humour that often underlies the seriousness of his approach.
Alongside the most emblematic masterpieces - including the Monochromes and the Sculptures éponges, the Monogolds gilded paintings, and the Anthropométries and the Peintures de Feu - there will be works that are less well known to the general public, as well as previously unpublished archives and unique objects from his studio collection. A number of works by other artists will also be on show, as well as collaborative projects that testify to the bonds of friendship and creative complicity that Klein maintained with colleagues and friends such as Arman, Christo, Martial Raysse and Jean Tinguely.
