Sunday, November 27th, 1960 "The Newspaper of a Single Day" (IMMA 036), 1960

Newsprint

14.96 x 21.85 inch

© Succession Yves Klein c/o ADAGP, Paris

"On Sunday, 27 November 1960, from midnight to midnight, I thus present a full day of festival, a true spectacle of the void, as a culminating point of my theories. However, any other day of the week could have been used.
(...) the field of operations of my proposed conception of theater is not only the city, Paris, but also the countryside, the desert, the mountains, even the sky, and even the entire universe. Why not?"
Yves Klein, excerpt from Sunday, November 27th, 1960, The Newspaper of a Single Day, (IMMA 036), 1960
On Sunday, November 27th, 1960, Yves Klein distributed in the Parisian kiosks The Newspaper of a Single Day, which he designed entirely for his participation in the theatrical performances of the Festival of avant-garde art organized by Le Corbusier and Jacques Polieri. The artist takes this Sunday to present "an ultimate form of collective theater".
On the first page, a photograph of the Leap into the void is titled: "A man in space!"
It introduces the artist throwing himself, while, in the street, a cyclist moves away, indifferent.