The Void (Le Vide)

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The Void (Le Vide) is Yves Klein’s radical 1958 conceptual artwork consisting of an apparently empty, white-painted gallery space that challenged traditional notions of art and materiality.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf conceptual artwork
exhibition
installation art
alsoKnownAs The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State of Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility NERFINISHED
artHistoricalSignificance iconic work of Nouveau Réalisme
landmark of early conceptual art
artistNationalityOfCreator French
artMovement Nouveau Réalisme NERFINISHED
countryOfFirstExhibition France NERFINISHED
creator Yves Klein NERFINISHED
durationOfExhibition 1958-04-28 to 1958-05-19
exhibitedAt Iris Clert Gallery, Paris NERFINISHED
exhibitionSpaceTreatment display fixtures removed
walls painted white
windows covered
genre conceptual art
hasTheme dematerialization of the art object
emptiness
immateriality
institutional critique
viewer perception
void
inception 1958
influenced installation art practices
later conceptual art
intendedToChallenge conventional exhibition formats
materiality in art
traditional notions of art
languageOfTitle French
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntityOfFirstExhibition Paris NERFINISHED
locationOfFirstExhibition Iris Clert Gallery NERFINISHED
medium empty gallery space
white-painted gallery
modeOfPresentation empty gallery as artwork
solo exhibition
notableCharacteristic absence of physical artworks
apparently empty space
focus on immateriality
use of the gallery itself as artwork
openingDate 1958-04-28
partOf Yves Klein’s exploration of the immaterial
requires viewer’s mental participation
subjectOf art historical analysis
critical theory discussions on dematerialization of art
title Le Vide NERFINISHED
translatedTitle The Void NERFINISHED
workType site-specific work

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Yves Klein notableWork The Void (Le Vide)