‘Yves Klein, La révolution bleue - François Lévy-Kuentz’

A key figure of the post-war avant-garde, judoka, mysticism and alchemy enthusiast, Yves Klein (1928-1962), in less than ten years of artistic activity, imposed the monochrome painting, invented a colour (the International Klein Blue), used bodies of young women as paint brushes, sold “zones of pure immaterial pictorial sensitivity” for gold, painted with fire, and co-founded, with the critic Pierre Restany, the Nouveaux Réalistes group – which also included artists such as Arman, Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle. Blending archive footage and fiction, François Lévy-Kuentz sheds light on the fascinating epic (told from the first-person point of view) of this singular individual, considered to be a precursor of the happening, body art and conceptual art.