Voids, A Retrospective at Centre Pompidou, Paris

"The idea of exhibiting emptiness is a recurring notion in the history of art over the past fifty or so years, almost to the point of becoming a cliché in the practice of contemporary art. Since the exhibition by Yves Klein – "The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State of Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility" in Paris in 1958, totally empty exhibitions have been the statement of different conceptions of vacuums.

A quite exceptional event, "Vides" (Voids) is a retrospective of empty exhibitions since that of Yves Klein in 1958. In almost a dozen rooms of the National Museum of Modern Art, it assembles in a totally original manner exhibitions that showed absolutely nothing, leaving empty the space for which they were designed."

On view at the Centre Pompidou until March 23, 2009, Voids, a Retrospective ehibits the history of empty gallery and exhibition spaces starting with Yves Klein's 1958 exhibition "The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State of Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility".