Jean-Yves Klein

Jean-Yves Klein (* 1960 in Montreal ) is a Canadian - German painter and sculptor . He lives and works in Berlin and the Peloponnese .

Vita and work

Born in Montreal in 1960, he emigrated to Paris at the age of 16 and enrolled at the Académie Saint-Roch in 1976 with Jean Bertholle, a pupil of Roger Bissière , whose work turned out to be formative for Klein. Four years later in 1980, Jean-Yves Klein moved to the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts , Paris , where he founded the Graffiti Group in 1981. Olivier Debré was professor there for two more years before Jean-Yves Klein moved to Berlin in 1982 and continued his studies at the Berlin University of the Arts . This was followed by a study trip to the American art metropolis New York in 1985. There he met Willem de Kooning in his studio. In terms of style, Klein developed for the first time from the lyrical abstraction of the École de Paris to the free, generous-looking painting of the American Abstract Expressionists, an influence that was to remain formative. He then received his master class from Martin Engelman in 1986 . In 1987 he was awarded the scholarship to promote young talent. The Starke Foundation granted him a studio grant in 1992. It followed u. a. Cooperation with the art dealer Matthias Arndt and curators Christoph Tannert

In the spring of 2008, a painterly and lyrical cooperation arose with the writers Jan Wagner , Uwe Kolbe and Robert Weber on Kyparissa . The artist's book Auf der Pirsch / Lietzenlieder was created together with Uwe Kolbe . In the same year Josef Laggner asked the artist for the artistic design of the gendarmerie. For this he created several interior sculptures as well as a monumental wall relief, which was praised by art critics. The New York Times described the work as "the restaurant's wow factor". In the Dionysian manner, those represented in Klein's paintings enjoy the richness of the food. The topos , borrowed from Greek mythology , also represents a reference to the context of the location. The painting Los Borrachos by Diego Velázquez , whose narrative Jean-Yves Klein transposed into his own formal language, served as an inspiring model . Klein worked on the larch wood, which is almost 15 meters long and 5 meters high, for six months. Here he used a chainsaw and hatchet. Other works in public space include a. in the Fischerhütte am Schlachtensee , in Poppi , Tuscany , in Sucy-en-Brie and in the Kunsthaus Taunusstein. In his other oeuvre, too, he preferred the primacy of color, the motif taking a back seat to the weighty intrinsic effect of the coloring. With a lot of verve , Jean-Yves Klein unfolded a colorful panorama of mythological and art-historical quotations, which he symbolizes in his own painterly thinking and feeling. He prefers to use the medium of painting or sculpture. He usually forms the latter with a specially developed technique, where he uses a chainsaw and saws the figures from a block of wood.

His works are in private collections in Brazil , New York , Portugal , Israel and Germany .

Biennials

2016: 6th Marrakech Biennale , Marrakech
1990: Dak'Art , Dakar Biennale, Senegal

Solo exhibitions

2017: La vie est dure , Bernard Jordan Gallery, Paris
2016: Aegean , Garboushian Gallery, Los Angeles
2016: Sources , Kampl Gallery, Munich
2015: Chimeras , Gallery Molly Krom, New York
2014: Myths , Michael Schultz Gallery , Berlin
2013: Jean-Yves Klein , BAP Gallery, Istanbul
2011: Pandorica , Gallery 39 for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2009: In the olive grove , Galerie Cornelissen, Wiesbaden
2009: 9 pictures , Kunsthalle Vierseithof , Luckenwalde
2003: Athanatos , Galerie Cornelissen, Wiesbaden
2001: Cactusmania , Galerie Cornelissen, Wiesbaden
2001: Pictures and drawings , Eikelmann Gallery, Düsseldorf
1995: Lucifer laisse faire , Galerie Berinson, Berlin
1994: New pictures , Galerie Hesselbach, Berlin
1990: Bilndnis einer Lust , Galerie Raab, Berlin
1982: Le Rêve , Galerie Verdeau, Paris
1978: Peinture , Saint Roch Academy, Paris

Group exhibitions

2019: Time flows and approximations , Kunsthaus Taunusstein, Niederlibbach-Taunusstein
2018 NGURO NGURO , Atelier Jonas Burgert , Berlin
2018: Group exhibition , Galerie Holger John , Dresden
2019: Mona Lisa - a smile for Europe , Rotes Rathaus , Berlin
2018: Painted Images , Sanatorium Gallery, Istanbul
2016: Nem as paredes confesso , Galeria Rua Miguel Bombarda, Porto
2015: The little games of friend Hein / The Little Games of Mr Joe Black , Palastgalerie, Berlin
2013: Berlin - New York , Contemporary Art Center Berlin - New York, Wiesbaden
2012: Thirty-four zu Kleist , Städtische Galerie Speyer , Speyer
2011: Tilo Ilar 3 , Gallery Art Cargo, Athens
2009: Exposition Surprise , Galerie Cornelissen, Wiesbaden
2008: Tilo Ilar 1 , Art Cargo Gallery, Athens
2006: Colors , Art Museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen , Magdeburg
2006: Group exhibition , Brigitte Henninger projects, Munich
2005: Berlin Berlin , Salao-de artes, São Paulo
2004: Opendoors - Openeyes , Tatry Gallery, Bordeaux
2003: Cocktails , Berlinische Galerie , Berlin
2003: Group exhibition , Kunsthalle Vierseithof , Luckenwalde
2002: Heads and Portraits , Gallery Schloss Mochental , Ehingen
2002: Group exhibition , Heylshof Museum , Worms
2001: Convergence Approach , Goethe-Institut Washington , Washington
2001: Convergence - approach , Hackesche Höfe , Berlin
2001: Genji Monogatari , Kunstverein Speyer, Speyer
2000: Genji Monogatari , Kunstverein Lingen, Lingen
2000: Painting , Kunstverein Genthiner Elf, Berlin
1999: Artist of the gallery , Galerie Cornelissen, Wiesbaden
1996: Peinture. Trust your eyes , Hausvogteiplatz, Stiftung Starke, Berlin
1992: Two works , Galerie Vruchtenhagel, Kassel
1988: Pictures , Bruno Brunnet Gallery, Cologne
1984: Those who are of today are tomorrow of yesterday , Kunstquartier Ackerstraße, Berlin
1982: Magalis Day , Alliance Francaise, São Paolo

literature

Jürgensen, Christoph / Klimek, Sonja: Poems by Jan Wagner. Interpretations , Münster: Mentis Verlag, 2017, p. 149
Braungart, Wolfgang : Literature and religion in the modern age. Studies , Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag , 2016, p. 488
Petersen, Hans-Joachim: Jean-Yves Klein. Mythen , Berlin: Galerie Michael Schultz , 2014
Wagner, Jan : The Prophet's Sandal . Incidental prose, Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 2011, p. 18
Marder, Rachel: Jean-Yves Klein. Painting with a chainsaw . In: The Jerusalem Post , June 16, 2011 Article online
Williams, Gisela: Challenge to Chic Dining in Berlin . In: The New York Times , Aug 6, 2009 Article online
Schöddert, Wolfgang: Jean-Yves Klein. Bacchanal , Berlin / Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2009
Gellner, Uwe-Jens / Laabs, Annegret: A Noir, E Blanc, I Rouge. Farben , Berlin / Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2007, pp. 156–161
de Almeida, Eduardo: Jean-Yves Klein. Pictures 1977–2005 , São Paolo: Fernando Ullmann Verlag, 2005

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personal data
SURNAME	Klein, Jean-Yves
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Canadian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montreal