Yves Klein's Leap

Yves Klein was a pop minimalist genius.

In 1960 he staged the photo SAUT DANS LE VIDE or LEAP INTO THE VOID from a rooftop in the Paris suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses.

His friends caught him in a tarp.

The photo was then published in a fake newspaper at Paris news kiosks.

I love Yves Klein.

He was not scared of the void.

At least as an illusion.

Still Lifes On Other Planets

NASA released photos from their Rover vehicle this last week and I was stuck how much the sere close-up resembled Yves Klein's BLUE SPONGE. Obviously it was another case of art imitating still life on another planet. There will be many more in the centuries to come. If we are going to the stars. And discover the cosmos and not God.