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Yves Klein Blue Anthropometries
(documentation of a performance)

Performance by: Madeleine Hatz
Original duration: 6 hours
Location/Date: Williamsburg, Brooklyn/ July 11th 2009
Videographer: Sarah Gordon Drake
Edited by Eric Levin Hatz
Duration: 27:20

Screening date: January 2010
Venue: Public Projection Series at AVIEW NOMADIC GALLERY
Screening Location: Magasinsgatan 3-5, Gothenburg, Sweden


A performance from a Brooklyn street reappears in Gothenburg as a projection in public space.

The performance Yves Klein Blue Anthropometries was part of an event organized by Creative Thriftshop, titled “7 in 6”: seven simultaneous performances during six hours. All were to be in the spirit of the 60s and 70s, and the event took place on the main street of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, blocked off from traffic for the purpose.

Hatz made her own version of Yves Klein’s “Anthroprometries”. Instead of using naked young models as instruments, the artist used her body dressed in blue and moving in slow meditative motions. The blue woman was stroking the ground with blue paint outling her body like an Ana Mendieta snow angel in the street.

Madeleine Hatz work cusps the genres of painting, sculpture and performance. Her work often has political undercurrents dealing with aspects of every day life and the access of public space. At times they are interlaced with direct actions organized at the boundary of art and activism. During 2009 her work has in been shown in Sweden, Netherlands, Spain and The US. Hatz lives in New York (US) and Sormland (SE).

Madeleine Hatz website >>>
Review of Yves Klein Blue Anthropometries in Art Critical
by David Cohen, July 20-26 >>>
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Klein Blue Anthropometries by Madeleine Hatz was the first program in the new series Public Projections (January 2010). A project by AVIEW NOMAD GALLERY in close partnership with Sätila Holding AB.