THE
TECHNOLOGICAL IMAGINATION, DEL SANIO MUSEUM, BENVENTO, ITALY
MARCH – APRIL 1984
EXHIBITION
CURATED BY MARIO COSTA
ELECTRONIC CONVERSION OF YVES KLEIN BLUE BY ÉRIC MAILLET
This
works draws an implicit comparison between the empty space at the
core of Klein’s work and the abstract, hybridized space of
telecommunications … eventually known as cyberspace. The artist
orchestrates the regional television broadcast of an electronically
synthesized form of Yves Klein’s signature hue of blue. The
electronic blue of this broadcast and commentary and reminiscences
by New Realism founder Pierre Restany, speaking live via a telephone
conference call, are both incorporated into Forest’s performance,
which takes place in a gallery bathed in blue light.