Film Screening “La Revolution Bleue – Yves Klein”

Sat 11 Jun 2016, 7 pm
Blossom Art House

From the organizer:

Come to film screening “LA RÉVOLUTION BLEUE – Yves Klein” directed by François Lévy-Kuentz.

“They mocked me. They treated me like a lunatic instead of an artist. They didn’t believe I could think with my painbrush…”

So begins the film, in the first person. It goes on to tell a story which is a distillation of the blazing intensity of a brief and highly unusual artistic career.

Using archival footage, art work and fictional re-enactments, François Lévy-Kuentz has composed a fascinating (auto)biography which radiates a powerful consciousness, that of the artist in the intimacy of his creation, his doubts, and his disappointments; that of a visionary buoyed by his confidence in his genius.

Yves Klein’s career, which lasted from 1955 to 1962, was cut short by death. He had had only seven years to create and convince. A unique phenomenon in contemporary art, Yves Klein, inventor of both the monochrome and the happening, died at the age of 34 of a surfeit of passion. He had exhausted himself striving to make art life, and life art; to birth a superior and invisible world. Few of his contemporaries understood the focus of the mission he had given himself. Today, it is still being discovered.

Duration: 52 minutes
Language: French
Subtitle: English

50.000 VND donation is suggested at door.

Watch a part of the documentary here: