Yves Klein Monotone Silence Symphony

Yves Klein Monotone Silence Symphony

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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th Street, Performance Hall
Add to Calendar 2023-01-05 19:45:00 2023-01-05 19:45:00 Yves Klein Monotone Silence Symphony Following the Monochrome Multitudes student symposium, a UChicago student-organized orchestra and choir will perform French artist Yves Klein’s Monotone Silence Symphony at the Logan Center for the Arts, which will be part of the culminating event for the Smart Museum's exhibition Monochrome Multitudes. Known mostly for his paintings in a blue hue called International Klein Blue, the Monotone Silence Symphony transforms Klein’s monochromatic paintings and sculpture into a monotone auditory experience. 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. Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th Street, Performance Hall Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
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Following the Monochrome Multitudes student symposium, a UChicago student-organized orchestra and choir will perform French artist Yves Klein’s Monotone Silence Symphony at the Logan Center for the Arts, which will be part of the culminating event for the Smart Museum's exhibition Monochrome Multitudes.

Known mostly for his paintings in a blue hue called International Klein Blue, the Monotone Silence Symphony transforms Klein’s monochromatic paintings and sculpture into a monotone auditory experience.

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.