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David Hammons/Yves Klein

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The new Aspen Art Museum in Aspen USA opens with a surprising ‘couple: Yves Klein and David Hammons
August 9 – November 30, 2014

 

Untitled, 1961

 

 

 

 

 

KleinFirePainting1961Yves Klein, Fire Painting, 1961.

An unprecedented coupling of two of the most significant artists of our time, David Hammons Yves Klein / Yves Klein David Hammons explores points of aesthetic harmony within two seemingly different practices. Weaving a larger narrative through Hammons’s Basketball and Kool-Aid Drawings, Klein’s Fire Paintings and Monochromes, to both artist’s exploration of performance and public intervention, the exhibition looks at Hammons and Klein as artists who perform a kind of aesthetic alchemy—investing the humblest of everyday materials with deep aesthetic significance.

hammons_koolaid-drawing_2004_jcg5827-e1340401678592David Hammons Koolaid drawing, 2004.

For more information about the new Aspen Art Museum, opening August 9 to the public, please visit: http://aspenartmuseum.org/newbuilding/

HammonsKoolaiddrawing2003David Hammons, Koolaid drawing, 2003.