Yves Klein Leaps into the IKB Void
Patrick LeMieux
Yves Klein Leaps into the IKB Void
Blue Sanwa JLF joystick, IPAC, Power Mac G4,
Flash Application, digital projector, wood, paint
36" x 18" x 18"
November 1, 2008
Yves Klein
Monochrome Blue, Untitled
Blue paint on canvas
77" x 60"
1961
Scale reproduction by Patrick LeMieux
Yves Klein Leaps into the IKB Void (2008) suspends the artist's body as depicted in the photograph Leap into the Void (1960), originally published in Dimanche - Le Journal d'un Seul Jour on Sunday, November 27th 1960. Finally free of gravity, neither flying nor falling, Klein's horizontal momentum is made consistent as if floating between the aerial, the aquatic, and the extraterrestrial. In the style of a side-scrolling shooter, Yves Klein's body tilts up and down according to the player's influence while textured International Klein Blue (IKB) monochromes pan in the background, their pigment suspended in clear resin.
Play the Game
At the J. Wayne Reitz Union
in Gainesville, FL on February 16 to March 7, 2009
At the School of Art and Art History
in Gainesville, FL on November 6, 2008
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