Yves Klein, Lita Albuquerque, Jack Goldstein

Three artists, three continents, three skies. The Mitterrand Gallery brings together this summer Yves Klein, Lita Albuquerque and Jack Goldstein under the same banner, Cosmic Landscapes, which draws its theoretical framework from the complex thought of Edgar Morin: reality unfolds simultaneously as a physical phenomenon, symbolic and perceptual, and photography, like painting, captures, each, than a fragment. Yves Klein holds the central place in this constellation – that of the artist who restored color to the status of a total experience.

His IKB blue, deep and saturated to the point of abstraction, is not viewed as a motif on a canvas but as a field of perception that absorbs the viewer. Further on, Lita Albuquerque, an American artist who has lived in the vast desert landscapes since the 1970s, combines art with science, geography with sacred geometry. His work inscribes the earth and the human body within cosmic logics that Edgar Morin himself would have recognized—an interdisciplinary knowledge where each scale calls upon the others.

Between these two poles of continuity, Jack Goldstein introduces rupture. A major figure of the New York Pictures Generation, he devoted his paintings of the 1980s to extreme events—lightning, volcanic eruptions, nocturnal constellations. The brief irruption of disorder into a system that believed itself stable. Between blue meditation, sacred cartography, and white lightning, Cosmic Landscapes traces a journey through three regimes of the invisible. The cosmos is not a subject here. It's a point of view.

GALERIE MITTERRAND
From May 29 to July 25, 2026
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