A WORK
Yves Klein’s blue
with Giuseppe Garrera
live stream
#Agora
A Work is a format of AGORA developed in collaboration with Giuseppe Garrera, in which the musicologist, art historian and collector will analyse philologically an art work of his choice for each meeting.
Milan, 2 January 1957. At the Galleria Apollinaire, Yves Klein, Japanese wrestling champion and super-avantgarde painter, presents the most paradoxical exhibition which the world has ever seen: eleven canvases, all blue and of equal size. How much do they cost? The public chuckles and protests. There are already two buyers: a famous tailor, and the painter-sculptor Lucio Fontana, “the holes guy”, who has rushed to buy one piece. “Nulla si esaurisce di ciò che è azzurro”, (Nothing which is blue exhausts itself), propheses Emilio Villa.


Domenico Modugno, Nel blu, dipinto di blu. Edizioni Curci 1958. Cover by Guido Crepax.

Yves Klein at the Galleria Apollinaire in Milan for the exhibition Yves Klein: Proposte monocrome, epoca blu, 1957. Black and white photograph (Farabolafoto). Collezione Giuseppe Garrera.