Survey exhibition of Yves Klein’s work will open at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in May

Washington, DC – Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers will open at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on May 20 and will be on display until September 12. Co-curated by Hirshhorn deputy director and chief curator Kerry Brougher and DIA Art Foundation director Philippe Vergne, this major retrospective of the experimental French artist’s oeuvre is the first to appear stateside in nearly 30 years. The show will feature more than 90 artworks, sampling from all of his major series. It will also include examples from his comparatively arcane pink and gold monochrome series, as well as a vast selection of ephemera that detail the artist’s conceptual projects. The exhibition’s title alludes to Albert Camus’ entry in the visitor’s album at the private reception of Klein’s infamous 1958 show of nothing, Le Vide (The Void). Brougher and Vergne’s survey of Klein’s work correspondingly aims to chronicle the evolution of his enduring quest to visually capture the indefinable, spiritual element that characterizes every great work of art.

Image caption: Yves Klein's Untitled Anthropometry (1960), from the Hirshhorn’s collection.