Thinking about Yves Klein and his voids there are amazing images on flickr connected to the Walker Art Centre’s current exhibition of the artist (Yves Klein with the Void. Full Powers). There is a quote where Klein looks into the sky and sees a bird and identifies the bird as an interruption of his monochrome- his vast view of sky. In studying Klein the infinite quality of his blue could be made tangible by going outside and looking into the sky with a kind of view finder, or using your palms to block out all except the blue.
The Pompidou Centre in 2009 presented a recreation of Yves Klein’s empty galleries first presented in 1958. I was reminded of this whilst at an event waiting for the orchestra to begin- the act had been introduced but the conductor was waylaid. The moment of silence and anticipation caused me to ponder being in an audience for John Cage 4’33 a composition of silence in three parts created in 1952. The same meditation and anticipation might be experienced on witnessing Klein’s empty rooms.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkerart/5182240798/in/photostream/ Link to Walker Art photos of Klein
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/4-33/ Link to John Cage
The Pompidou Centre in 2009 presented a recreation of Yves Klein’s empty galleries first presented in 1958. I was reminded of this whilst at an event waiting for the orchestra to begin- the act had been introduced but the conductor was waylaid. The moment of silence and anticipation caused me to ponder being in an audience for John Cage 4’33 a composition of silence in three parts created in 1952. The same meditation and anticipation might be experienced on witnessing Klein’s empty rooms.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkerart/5182240798/in/photostream/ Link to Walker Art photos of Klein
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/4-33/ Link to John Cage
