Photographs View of the exhibition "Basreliefs in a sponge forest", Galerie Iris Clert Yves


Photographies Vue de l'exposition "Vitesse pure et stabilité monochrome", Galerie Iris Clert

In May 1958, Yves Klein invited the Parisian art world to the Galerie Iris Clert for the opening of his latest exhibition, which was entitled The Specialisation of the Sensibility in the Raw Material State of Stabilised Pictorial Sensibility. Driven by ample press coverage, large crowds eagerly awaited the unveiling of the artist's latest creation, only to be met with nothing. The gallery.


Ressources Vernissage de l'exposition "Basreliefs dans une forêt d'éponges", Galerie Iris

Two years after Klein's minimalist show Le Vide, the French-American artist Arman, in response, held an exhibition at Galerie Iris Clert that he titled Le Plein (Full Up). Arman instead filled the entire gallery space with garbage. Correspondingly, the exhibition invitation was stuffed in a sardine can filled with trash and handed out as a multiple edition of 1500.


38 different issues of the Iris Time magazine Galerie Iris Clert in Paris, 19621975 French

The Iris Clert Gallery was an art gallery named after its Greek owner and curator, Iris Clert. The single-room gallery The Iris Clert Gallery was an art gallery named after its Greek owner and curator, Iris Clert. The single-room gallery was located on 3 rue des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. It was open from 1955 to 1976 and during that time housed artworks from many successful and influential.


Portrait d'Iris Clert Collection Theodor Ahrenberg du Nouveau Réalisme à l’Art Transformable

The Galerie Iris Clert would become the venue for several of the most important and revolutionary exhibitions of the period, including Fontana's own. She showed his Nature , his large, rough, penetrated globe-like sculptures, as part of a two-gallery show at her new premises on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in 1961 and his 'celestial eggs.


Fotografías Entrée de la Galerie Iris Clert lors de l'inauguration de l'exposition dite du

Two years after the so-called exhibit "du vide" at the Galerie Iris Clert, Yves Klein did in fact take a leap, experimenting with the immaterial qualities of the void. Claude Parent, with whom the artist had the opportunity to collaborate on certain architectural projects, later confided "it was a question of a thought from within which.


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Robert Rauschenberg, "Ritratto di Iris Clert", 1960. Aerostatic sculpture in front of the Galerie Iris Clert during the exhibition "Propositions monochrime", Paris, 10-25 May 1957 ©Yves.


Simoen Gérard (1949) Eclatement Blanc 1973 Galerie Iris Clert crozonantiquites

Despite the relationship between Klein and Clert was officially over, the artist appreciated Arman's show and declared: "After my own emptiness comes Arman's fullness. The universal memory of art was lacking his conclusive mummification of quantification." Arman, Le Plein, Galerie Iris Clert, 1960. View of the exhibition.


Fotografías Vue de l'exposition "Basreliefs dans une forêt d'éponges", Galerie Iris Clert

The first gestures of this kind took place in Europe and included Yves Klein's Galerie Iris Clert exhibition The Void, and Arman's counter gesture The Full, held in the same gallery in 1960, as well as Daniel Buren's sealing off of Milan's Galleria Apollinaire. The apotheosis happened in the US with Christo wrapping the entire Chicago.


Photographies Iris Clert à une course de cafards Yves Klein

Arman, The Full Up, Galerie Iris Clert, 1960. View of the exhibition. In his essay Inside The White Cube , O'Doherty identified the changing artistic attitudes towards the white wall, citing the example of Frank Stella 's early painting and his exhibition in 1964 at Leo Castelli's gallery.


Iris Clert Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, France "In order to attain this indefinable of Delacroix that is the essence of painting, I became a specialist of space, which is my ultimate way of treating color. It is no longer a question of seeing color, but rather of perceiving it.


Two Exhibitions at Iris Clert Gallery, Paris Yves Klein’s Le Vide… SOCKS

Iris Clert : few names of gallery owners love as much as this one.For generations of art lovers, she remains the flamboyant icon of the post-war Parisian artistic effervescence. After a first book dedicated to Jean Fournier published in 2018, the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d'Art is proud to dedicate the second opus of the Art Gallery Collection to Iris Clert.


Two Exhibitions at Iris Clert Gallery, Paris Yves Klein’s Le Vide (The Void, 1958) and Arman’s

Le Plein (Full-up) which took place at Galerie Iris Clert, was inspired by Yves Klein's exhibition Le Vide (The Void). Klein's conceptual exhibition was also staged the Clert gallery in 1957, and consisted of an empty gallery with an empty display case. Originally planned to be shown immediately after Klein's installation, it took Arman two.


Ressources Vue de l'exposition "Basreliefs dans une forêt d'éponges", Galerie Iris Clert

Ad Reinhardt at Galerie Iris Clert, 1963. At Ad Reinhardt's prodding, in late 1961 his Parisian dealer Iris Clert offered him a solo show in her gallery, but because of expenses and scheduling it did not become a reality until June 1963. 1 Reinhardt was elated about how great his painting looked as part of the Guggenheim survey exhibition.


Iris Clert

Galerie Iris Clert, 3, rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France: Dimensions: 530 x 310 x 280cm: En relation. Artworks. Artwork, 1958 Project of blue lighting of the Obelisk, Place de la Concorde, Paris. Documents. Document, 1958 Albert Camus, Note written following the opening of the exhibition known as "The Void"


Photographs View of the exhibition "Basreliefs in a sponge forest", Galerie Iris Clert Yves

Better known as Le Vide (The Void) it was just a white painted, empty room, except for a large cabinet. 'Nouveau réaliste' Yves Klein (1928-1962) presented it at the Iris Clert gallery in Paris from April 28 to May 15 1958. The opening night was in itself a memorable happening. The exterior window was painted in the famous IKB blue.


Fotografías Iris Clert lors de l'exposition "Le Vide", Galerie Iris Clert Yves Klein

Arman, Le Plein, Galerie Iris Clert, 1960. The invitations. Read more: Yves Klein, Récit du vernissage de l'exposition "Epoque pneumatique, la sensibilité picturale immatérielle à l'état matière première" à la Galerie Iris Clert, 28 avril 1958