Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Centre Pompidou-Metz, an outpost of the Paris Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain, immerses us in a wide-ranging exhibition revealing an intangible utopian world, through the works of Yves Klein and his contemporaries.
Charles Wilp (1932-2005), Yves Klein working at the Gelsenkirchen Opera-Theatre, 1958.
© Yves Klein estate c/o Adagp Paris 2020
Yves Klein, the iconic figure of New Realism movement (founded in 1960), seems to have been on a roll in France since 2019. With various retrospectives and thematic exhibitions, institutions like the Musée Soulages (Rodez) and the Laiterie du Domaine des Étangs, in the south-west, have been striking while the iron is hot. However, under the leadership of its former director Emma Lavigne, the latest to date, at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, is presenting his work in the light of his contemporaries.…
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