NEWPORT — As a special presentation on the final weekend of the MAC Center’s stunning exhibition “Blue: an Exploration of the Colour,” local artist, filmmaker, and MAC Center member Bradleigh Stockwell will present a lecture about “Yves Klein: The Man Who Invented Blue.”
This event will take place on Saturday, August 17, at 2:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
When he died in Paris in 1963 at the age of 34, Klein was a successful artist and poised for international fame.
In his brief career, he created many of the performance and artistic techniques which would become standard practices in the decades to come.
Among his most notorious was creating art in front of an invited audience as musicians performed.
More important was his creation of a special type of blue paint, now known as International Klein Blue.
Klein made it his artistic signature, applying it to large canvases, sponges, sculptures, massive murals, and even models who became, in his words, “living paintbrushes.”
The MAC Center exhibition includes a large work created with “IKB.”
Mr. Stockwell’s lecture will include a live demonstration of this hue.
Also on the program: a fascinating filmed interview with Klein’s widow, Rotraut.
This film is being shown by special arrangement with Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark.
Please note that this half-hour film contains brief, artistic, but explicit female nudity.
Gallery hours at the MAC are Mon-Sat 10-5 and Sun 10-6.
For more information visit http://www.maccenterforthearts.com or call 802-334-1966.
