Yves Klein
Leap into The Void
silver gelatin print 350x270mm
Yves Kleins work might be understood as an experience arising out of
resignation in the face of complexity of a visual phenomenon. The artist
confronts us with the sublime, referring to Lyotard who refers to an image in
relation to the sublime as that of a pilot at the point of no return, at the point
of take-off. Klein takes this further by calming the pilot down at the point of
take-off.
From Yves Klein, Prometheus and Empedocles, by Wolf-Gunter Thiel as it
appeared in Flash Art, March 1995
1998 © all rights belong to the artist estate and Harry Schunk who took the photograph