NICE.- This summer the Nicetoile Shopping Center, located in the heart of Nice on the French Riviera, hosts a highly innovative digital exhibition dedicated to Yves Klein, an iconic figure of 20th century art.

A pioneer of contemporary art and a visionary artist, Yves Klein is known throughout the world as the inventor of the Monochrome and author of the International Klein Blue (I.K.B).

He was born in Nice in 1928. To celebrate the 90-year anniversary of his birth, Nicetoile pays him a tribute in his hometown by organizing a unique kind of retrospective: an interactive exhibition, to be discovered exclusively and for the first time at the Nicetoile Shopping Center.

« Yves Klein- The Interactive Exhibition… The Vibration of Color » successfully combines art and new technologies. Original artworks have been digitalized in 3D and ultra-High Defition : As a result, an unprecedented sense of intimacy with the artist’s work is offered to the public.

The exhibition is the first chapter of an ambitious digital retrospective which aims to travel worldwide for 10 years, and the chapter is dedicated to “The Vibration of Color”. It is being presented in its 60 sqm version at Nicetoile.

The conqueror of emptiness, the true defender of color, and a poet filled with unequalled spirituality, Yves Klein spent his lifetime exploring the connections between color and matter, between matter and void, between material and immaterial dimensions. “The Vibration of Color” illustrates this quest through a complete visual and audio immersion into Klein’s universe, ranging from the Blue Monochrome (I.K.B) to the Monoton- Silence Symphony.

The Interactive Exhibition: A New Artistic Experience
Both surprisingly and quite naturally considering the evolution of contemporary art exhibitions, the exhibition’s scenography is synchronized with visitors’ movements. Digital, visual and audio devices allow visitors to interact and to experience the true vibration of Klein’s work, and to understand its endless modernity.

• Sculptures and Sponge reliefs in Leap Motion: by moving their hands in the air in front of sensors, visitors can spin Klein’s sculptures by simply handling the air! Emptiness, a central concept in Klein’s philosophy, takes a whole new meaning thanks to new technologies.

• Discover Klein’s Anthropometries by a digitally triggered hand-erasure.

• The Monotone-Silence Symphony, a key act in the artist’s life work, is played in “octophonic” sound within a bell, a surprising technology that recreates the impression that sounds are coming from multiple directions.

Alongside these major interactive displays, digital mediation introduces the historical context of Klein’s work, his philosophy and writings, as well as the gradual appearance of the Monochrome and Klein Blue : the International Klein Blue (I.K.B). The whole exhibition path was conceived for the general public. Through intuitive discoveries, it features the great “re-volution” initiated by Klein and its effects on the contemporary art scene since the 50’s.