Yves Klein’s ‘MonotoneSilence’ Symphony Comes to Manhattan The New York Times


Yves Klein's "MonotoneSilence Symphony" Makes Noise Grace Cathedral

The performance, of the French artist Yves Klein's "Monotone-Silence Symphony," a work he conceived in the late 1940s consisting of 20 minutes of unchanging sound followed by 20 minutes of.


Works Score for Symphonie Monotonsilence [Monotonesilence Symphony] Yves Klein

The Monotone Symphony rings out at 10 p.m. on March 9, 1960, in the grand salon of Maurice d'Arquian's Galerie Internationale d'Art Contemporain, before an audience of around one hundred. Three nude models walk onto the stage. Using a sponge, they cover their bodies with blue paint and print themselves on the paper.


Yves Klein’s ‘MonotoneSilence’ Symphony Comes to Manhattan The New York Times

Yves Klein at the first performance of Monotone - Silence Symphony, with a naked model covered in blue paint This turn-taking is part of what makes the piece interesting and organic. Listening passively, the huge, bright mass of sound focused my attention on the changing elements.


Yves Klein’s ‘MonotoneSilence’ Symphony Comes to Manhattan The New York Times

SUIVX © The Estate of Yves Klein c/o ADAGP, Paris Artwork, 1947-1961 Score for Symphonie Monoton-silence [Monotone-silence Symphony] This composition is divided into two parts. First, a unique sound, continuous, then an equivalent time of silence, the sound part preparing the listener to transform the experience of silence into fullness.


Symphonie MonotonSilence di Yves Klein, per la prima volta in Italia ArtsLife ArtsLife

Klein described Monotone-Silence Symphony as "one unique continuous 'sound,' drawn out and deprived of its beginning and of its end, creating a feeling of vertigo and of aspiration outside of time." Musicians and singers hold a single continuous tone for 20 minutes, followed by 20 minutes of silence.


Exposiciones Symphonie MonotonSilence Yves Klein

Yves Klein's Monotone-Silence Symphony played at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (921 Madison Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan) on September 18. Related Tagged: Dominique Lévy.


San Francisco Art Week Behind The Performances by Yves Klein And Trevor Paglen

The Monotone Symphony March 9, 1960 On a clear night in March at ten pm sharp a crowd of one hundred people, all dressed in black tie attire, came to the Galerie International d'Art Contemporain in Paris. The event was the first conceptual piece to be shown at this gallery by their new artist Mr. Yves Klein.


Yves Klein Monotone Silence Symphony (1998) Dan brown, Arte, Instalacion

ARTnews "Fog presented a series of discussions about design and architecture and performances, perhaps none more impressive than a reenactment of Yves Klein's Monotone-Silence Symphony at Grace Cathedral…


Hear Last Night’s Yves Klein MonotoneSilence Symphony Performance ANIMAL

Klein conduct a 10-piece orchestra in a performance of his first sound composition. Called the "Monotone-Silence" Symphony, it consisted of a single chord played for 20 minutes straight, followed by 20 minutes of silence. At the same time, Klein directed three female models (whom he


Yves klein, Symphonie MonotoneSilence _ T.C.Ensemble YouTube

Dominique Levy's new gallery, where the monochrome is now on view in her inaugural show, also organized the first American presentation of Klein's "Monotone-Silence Symphony", in which a.


Beginning of "Monotone and Silence Symphony" by Yves Klein (20130918) YouTube

0:00 / 2:28 Yves Klein's Monotone Silence Symphony in San Francisco Lévy Gorvy 1.12K subscribers Subscribe Subscribed 128K views 6 years ago On January 12, 2017 at San Francisco's Grace.


24 Descubrimiento semanal MONOTON Symphonie MonotonSlience Yves Klein Cuartel de Artillería

Here is a quick video of Klein's first performance, Monotone-Silence Symphony in 1960, "a performance in which an orchestra plays a single note for 20 minutes, followed by a 20-minute period of silence, to a large audience.


MonotoneSilence Symphony by Yves Klein is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

Yves Klein, far right, at the first performance of his "Monotone-Silence" Symphony, in 1960 in Paris. As a visual accompaniment, he had naked models slathered in paint serve as "living.


LAXART Yves Klein Syphonie Monotone Silence Performance YouTube

Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvy are marking their official debut as Lévy Gorvy, in collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives, with a performance of Klein's "Monotone-Silence Symphony.


Closing for the LAXART Yves Klein Syphonie Monotone Silence Performance YouTube

Symphonie 'Monotone-Silence', 1947-1948"During this period of concentration, I created, around 1947--1948, a 'monotone' symphony whose theme expresses what I.


Yves Klein MonotoneSilence Symphony YouTube

FREE and open to the public. Advanced registration encouraged. This performance is sponsored by the Logan Center for the Arts and the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry at the Smart Museum of Art. Image caption: Yves Klein as a conductor at the Gelsenkirchen Musiktheater, 1959. Photo: © Charles Wilp.