Pierre RESTANY, art critic, talks about the modernity of Yves Klein who was conscious of doing something new. He tries to explain his artistic approach.
Art critic Pierre RESTANY revisits the approach of the artist Yves Klein. He had organized a demonstration whose walls were completely empty, he proposed to the guests to varnish them. According to him, it was Yves Klein’s presence in the gallery that caused the scandal.
A retrospective on Yves Klein, curious visitors, an art critic and a journalist who goes to meet them: "I find it modern, and it’s fantastic, it’s bright, it’s beautiful".
Interviewed, gallerist Iris CLERT talks about her meeting with Yves Klein. She evokes the day when Klein brought her a very small orange monochrome painting: "...I bring you my work, I tell her: ah what is it? This is a monochrome proposal! So I say listen, you don’t care about the world...".