YVES KLEIN

YVES KLEIN (1928-1962)

"My painting are the ashes of my art," Klein wrote. For him they were materializations of cosmic energy secondary to the larger ideas that inspired his imagination, ideas that inspired his imagination, ideas rooted in oriental philosophy, Rosicrucian mysticism, and esoteric Christian spiritualism. His supreme ambition, the final goal of his method , was to sensitize the whole planet, to return to state of nature in a technological Eden.

He was a painter, writes Pierre Restanyu, but also infinitely more: a beliver living his own sense of the divine, and a mutant responsible in the highest degree for the future of his vision.

Pierre Restany, an internationally respected critic of avant-garde art, the author among other books, César, recognized Kleins importence early on and was a close friend and a participant in many of the artist`s activities.