"I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.”
Yves Klein - Arquitectura del Aire
(Aerial Architecture)
Director
Ellie Nixon
Cast
La Mancha
Year
2005-6
Location
Chile
About this production
This multi-dimensional performance combined lighting, sound, dance, text, judo and acrobatics to explore the space and universe of the French artist Yves Klein. Klein conceived of his paintings as living presences, and not as material things with restrictive boundaries. They were a place where scientific investigation meets spiritual space and the invisible becomes visible.
"Going beyond thought is the very law of poetic expression – in the realm of imagination, infinity is the place where the imagination
asserts itself as pure imagination, where it is free and alone, vanquished and victorious, proud and trembling. Then images soar upward and vanish; they rise and are shattered by their very height. Then the realism of unreality is evident.”
- Gaston Bachelard
