Harry Shunk (German, 1924-2006) and János Kender (1937-2009). Le peintre de l'espace se jette dans le vide!, Yves Klei...

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Harry Shunk (German, 1924-2006) and János Kender (1937-2009)
Le peintre de l'espace se jette dans le vide!, Yves Klein (1928-1962)
(Obsession with Levitation - Leap into the Void), October 23, 1960
Gelatin silver, printed 1991-1992
7-7/8 x 6 inches (20 x 15.2 cm)
Signed in ink on label affixed to frame verso.

NOTE:
This photograph was printed by Harry Shunk in Paris in 1991 or 1992 for a proposed deluxe edition of 50 copies of the first publication of Yves Klein's writing La Conférence de la Sorbonne, June 3, 1959. The edition was never realized although the text was published by Galerie Montaigne, Paris.

PROVENANCE:
Galerie Montaigne, Paris exhibition H.Shunk/ Y.Klein 1992
Acquired by the present owner from above

LITERATURE:
Mia Fineman, Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2012, pp. 182 and 252;
Simon Baker and Fiontan Moran, Performing for the Camera, London: Tate Publishing, London, 2016, p. 10.

In this photograph the French artist Yves Klein, who was a pioneer in the evolution of performance art, envisions himself jumping in to the void or "le Vide" which he imagined as a serene state where one could become attuned to one's own insight devoid of worldly distractions. Shunk and Kender made the image by combining two negatives in to a "photomontage."


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