1. Aesthetics sublimated in the service of ethics
ART & CULTURE by Mary Lou Lamarque
In view of the famous Yves Klein, plastic surgeon at the bow of the New Realism, the name of the artist may seem ambiguous. In fact, it is not her real name but his surname,
Myrian Klein and was probably destined for a career in the arts.Born in Lyon, it was from an early age fascinated by all forms of expressions
art. She finally devote to painting and sculpture, in a figurative bill first time. Based in Nice last thirty years, it will start from 1990 different
series of more conceptual installations, but sufficiently readable at their message.
These series of works she performs on average two years, changing verbatim material or theme, moon Lautre draw a conclusion after hiring and on our society. Revenue today
the painting as it comes to sources, the comprehensiveness of loeuvre of Miryan Klein may seem confusing by his eclecticism, but it obeys the logic dune demonstration on the wire, attached to a expression of the most attractive.
Inheritance and Mixing
"The Works of Miryan Klein, written by Jacques Aldebert, president of International Association Contemporary Art, objects, installations, paintings, we always refer to a conceptual soundness Restany that communicated has not disowned. Certainly the various facilities such as La
consumption Stations deau, Métissages, the crowd and Human Trafficking, whose titles speak for themselves, with a beautiful simplicity of means and a simulation purified denounce the serious shortcomings our consumer society. Economic pressure, racism, overpopulation, loss of identity are emphasized, but in a neutral, not aggressive, and rather in a sort of extremely elaborate styling, not lacking say and seems intended by contrast effect.
Lexemple most obvious is the Lunch on lherbe inspired by Manet or body spectra Human designed neon camped around what could be a mouth dévacuation gas
Exhaust, dunes and around cars.
At this stage it would certainly be tempted to think that the artist joined the spirit of the New Realism, taking into account the "new reality of society." However research plastic Miryan Klein There shall be no ownership of the manufactured object, as was the case for representatives this movement, and she can move beautifully neon, glass, sand, concrete, to laluminium, creations of its own. Just as some have seen in his work, including in optical fibers, No Painting, paternity minimalist. It then nautoriserait
no subjective interpretation loeuvre, which is lopposé motivations of the artist.
From Introspection to return to Nature
In a recent series conducted in 2003, titled Intrusion, Miryan Klein burns on monochrome canvases put in boxes, lépaisseur paint in regular bands, giving them
rate of residual staining schedules. This network of lines nest it not also beyond Lintrus, an enclosure? The Nest is not a privacy safeguard? At worst, a cover-up? Miryan Klein, like his other plays, does not reveal further his message. Suddenly, in 2005, in the sudden needs an item dencrage earthy, lartiste shall return to this matter, cest-scire
in nature, with his compositions "DORBEC. Orbec one region of Normandy where he resides lannee several months, and when she discovered as a counterpoint to the themes which has developed hitherto, Ex Proof of fall colors or summer, the mild winter colors. Always on the cloths in box, she then transcribed these nuances, these textures belonging to land, light, frost, the undergrowth. These paintings are grouped in harmonious puzzles and establish the divisions only dune environment. They are covered with thick dun varnishes, linstar dune vitrification which curiously gives them an almost photographic? However, CEST well paint Quil SAGIT and Miryan Klein seems to close his argument by confronting us with lharmonie nature. Dailleurs it not free nest which has borrowed from Ben with his authorization, the phrase "black cest black", what was done in Braille. An assertive sentence is difficult to those suffering from blindness, but even more tragic for those who do not look around two, seems to mean it.
Lunch on the Grass, 2002, neon
No Painting, 2004, neons on canvas, 43x34 cm
New Realism - Pierre Restany
Movement was born in 1960 between Paris, Nice and Milan under the aegis of the art critic Pierre Restany which advocated the ownership of manufactured artists, to distract them from their function, accumulate them, tear them in a consideration of the consumer society. Artists Group: Arman, César, Yves Klein, Raysse, Hains, Rotella, Spoerri, Tinguely, Villeglé, Niki de St Phalle, Christo, Deschamps.
Minimal Art
Movement was born in 1965 in New York, seeking to geometric abstraction oversimplified, using materials did not commit any neutral interpretation of the viewer, for the sole purpose of the to deal with reality.
2. A disturbing aesthetic by Bert Popelier
Lartiste French Miryan Klein designs objects, sculptures, installations and paintings socially engaged. It operates the major problems of our time, from pollution
the environment by passing through lendoctrinement trading up to the bureaucracy. His work dextirpe this world to make their way in the field of lart. Regardless of their
eclecticism, demonstrations of artistic expression including all extremely aesthetic.
As if things could be shown that in an apparently sublimated, and transformed stylish, far from their everyday event.
Klein refused to be reassured by the fact that problems can be quantified and translated into figures. She thinks that the statistics exceed the ordinary and merely divert
problems of each other. Klein created, not without a touch say, staging suffocation, Packing clinical Dalien, perception apparent. It seems to ask
which has remained Lenigme The existence of human.
In 2002, Klein sest launched in painting in a series of abstract paintings bearing the overall title "Intrusion ", Referring Lintrus in the privacy of somebody. These paintings resemble their plastic, strict minimalism forms composed of lines of color, monochrome, more or less equal, arranged in bands. It looks like a network to acrylic paint. Burning
Then the surface of the canvas, some parts (and sometimes linen) changing color, which accentuates the terrain.
At first sight, an image as neutral to lesthétisme pure has nothing to do with social commitment. It SAGIT, it seems, dune plastic research the significance of the structure and depth lart in the paint. If you look closer, the network that dominates the perception starts function as a grid. One who looks through the network, find indeed another
world, makes color fields softer lines and less ordered. Beyond is a world much less rigid. Klein seems to say "what we see quapparences nest,
UNTIL when we look better. Enter the web ".
In the same vein danalyse artistic, even revolt, Klein produced a series of high tables color with the title "No painting" without using paint. She carried an arrangement of
neon tubes in front of the white surface of the canvas and connecting to the grid, they produce the desired monochrome tint. The fact that our perceptions are not quillusions, expresses an in another series doeuvre. They each consist of two parts, a top cover, painted, and a lower pane, without painting, which is adorned with the same color as the above thanks to the presence of optical fibers. Matter and energy are literally confronted to produce the same effect. As the debate on the difference between reality and perception, Miryan Klein takes a position here that nest reminiscent of the Greek philosopher Plato.
3. Marie Gayet, dun sample article for EXPOSURE Let the output Beguinage dHoogstraten, Belgium.
"Concerned by the fate of the world and its excesses of all kinds, Mr. Klein staged his anguish of Lavena. She denounced trafficking dhumains (Human Trafficking, 2000), the forest devastation (Forest, 2000). Soon the food and added oxygen will be sold in tablets (Distributor bloods, foods, oxygen, 2001), we will fetch drinking water to the pump (Stations deau, 2000) ... Miryan Klein is a passionate woman, passionate, an artist very committed to this world
and future, an activist for a better world.
4. Miryan KLEIN by President Jacques ALDEBERT lInternational Contemporary Art Association
What about to add so well expressed by Bert and Marie Gayet Popelier for an artist also concerned about the world around us and lexprime with as much accuracy and dacuité
in his great work? This includes current issues interesting topics ever dactualité and sexpriment dune so surreal and sociological in the wake of lÉcole Nice and New Realists
it is an extension in an expression more rock of reality despite a theme seems recurrent and perhaps updated: consumer society and its terrible impact on
our civilization.
Of course Georgia "nest not forgotten and overcrowding, the mixing of humans, a total lack of communication between them and each work, objects, installations, paintings we always return to a conceptual accuracy which expresses as Restany laurant does not repudiated.
But with these sixty years Decart compared to the birth of new realism, after the second World War, this overheated consumerism, this waiting phase of Environment,
massification still growing and Miryan Klein sautorise to manifest in second intention, more concrete, more conceptual, each time with a different medium: Installation
where the fairy power dominates, paintings, neon lights, artificial lights.
What is fascinating to her, cest linterpellation this society fully permeated by the abundance in all areas and as marie Gayet said: "cest an artist very committed
the present world and future, an activist for a better world ".
Artists generally expect, anticipate, Miryan, she made a record in the art of the interpretation dun "Suggested".
5. Excerpt from speech at EXPOSURE dHoogstraten by the Conservative Mukha, Rita Compere.
"... Miryan Klein invests his art demotion. Lartiste is fascinated by the double meaning and duality our existence: the opposition consciousness - unconsciousness, visibility - invisibility, anxiety - contemplation Protection - threats, love - suffering, life - death and cruelty - goodness, find themselves as in its motives and themes in his choice of materials. His works are included in lhistoire our society today: racism, feelings and relationships, the meaning and Guilty, guilty of this incomprehensible life. His observation of this century leads to a series of paintings, sculptures and dinstall which are often a cry Alarm about our environment and our society. Lavenir of Man and the preservation of nature may be
well the biggest concerns of the artist ... ".
6. Michel Gaudet, dun sample article from The Patriot of November 30, 2001.
"The contemporary design is fully assumed here since just released from their duties ordinary elements of modern consumption, cables, syringes, jars or Paper bags are available of the artist who uses them masterfully, with detachment, seems to be much more sensitive to possible meanings qua conduct technical limits lobjet used or giving it a value of collection. The language in this proposal allusive under franchise and protest. It tends to prevail lesprit criticism, the search for truth,
indignities of stigma in our society: Labus material, racism, lexc consumption. Figures to discover, analyze in this together, reflect lalacrité inventive Lexpress
but the rejection to delinquency lindignation moral, social, economic.