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– Launched Dec 2021 on China Crowdfunding platform, a whooping 1,376 backers contributed RMB$162,100.71 or approx SGD$34,746, out of RMB$20,000 goal, to bring this project to life!
– Check out the YouTube video of a documentary on Yves Klein uploaded by vozni
– and the official trailer
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/hpRTzOLlXmYoa1IPhy3fMg
– Available editions:
1. Piet Cornelies Mondrian – Still Life Part 1, limited edition of 1872
2. Klein Blue – Still Life Part 2, limited edition of 1928
3. Klein Blue Flawed – misprint, wrong colour used
4. Klein Blue Mini – crowdfunding goal
5. Klein Blue Half Brick Box
6. Klein Blue Commemorative Coins
7. Piet Cornelies Mondrian Commemorative Coins
✴️ This is not a King Star designed deck. It’s designed by WohStudio, and printed by King Star Playing Card Company (KSPCC). This is equivalent to the Rising Sun Kickstarter deck designed by Mr Lambert, printed by USPCC, and fulfilled by Gambler’s Warehouse. KSPCC is how King Star makes its bread and butter. What this means, is that you can be assured of the quality of how the cards handle for Cardistry.
🔵 Yves Klein was a leading member of the French artistic movement of ‘Nouveau Realisme’ but is perhaps most famous for his signature blue — also known as International Klein Blue (IKB). RGB hex #002FA7.
🔵 IKB was a rich and distinctive ultramarine which Klein registered as a trademark colour in 1957. He considered this colour to have a quality close to pure space and associated it with immaterial values beyond what can be seen or touched.
🔵 Klein began making monochromes in 1947, considering them to be a way of rejecting the idea of representation in painting and therefore of attaining creative freedom. Although it is difficult to date many of these works precisely as they all were untitled when he made them (and were only titled by his widow after his death) — the early ones have an uneven surface, whereas later ones, are finer and more uniform in texture.
Klein used an ultramarine pigment suspended in a synthetic resin called ‘Rhodopas’, described by Klein as ‘The Medium’. Discovered with the help of Edouard Adam (a Parisian paint dealer) the optical effect retained the brilliance of the pigment which, when suspended in linseed oil, tended to become dull.
🔵 Yves Klein grew up surrounded by the dizzying blues of the Cote d’Azur. Frustrated by the dulled pigments that were available to him, he collaborated with legendary colorist Edouard Adam to create a new, luminous blue that would represent escape and infinity.
🔵 Klein later trademarked (“soleau enveloped”) this recipe to maintain the ‘authenticity of the pure idea’ and went on to attach his monochrome paintings to poles placed 20 cm away from the walls to increase their spatial ambiguities.
Klein’s signature blue was a key influence in Céline’s S/S17 show, and a major retrospective of his work was recently on display at Tate Liverpool.
🔵 Klein’s obsession with blue gathered momentum: he believed in a Blue Revolution where everyone would benefit from the birth of IKB. He released 1001 blue balloons into the sky above Paris, he planned to paint Cleopatra’s needle blue and he even wrote to President Eisenhower, asking him to support his cause. Many of Klein’s paintings were simple blocks of blue – revealing a devotion to the deep and utopian color. At just 34 years old, Yves Klein suffered multiple heart-attacks and tragically died, leaving his legacy of IKB behind to creep beyond the boundaries of art and into photography, fashion and design.
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