“Long Live the Immaterial!”
I didn’t say that. Yves Klein did.
In the continuing series of my mind over matter essays, I present to you the fabulously neo-Dadaist Yves Klein. Right now having his own retrospective at the Pompidou, Klein is famous for his the International Klein Blue, for throwing ingots of gold into the river, and using naked women as paint brushes.
I’ve been a fan of Klein for years, he’s cited as one of my heroes on *horror* myspace, after first being baffled by this photograph early on. Saut dans le Vide is an image of the artist apparently in mid jump.
