{"id":17158,"date":"2014-05-04T23:14:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T23:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/towerofsleep-jahsonic-starting-in-1959\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T19:22:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:22:53","slug":"towerofsleep-jahsonic-starting-in-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/towerofsleep-jahsonic-starting-in-1959\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-17158 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/towerofsleep-jahsonic-starting-in-1959\/attachment\/17159\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n52gq6Kx2Y1qz4yqio1_540-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/towerofsleep.tumblr.com\/post\/84766169564\/jahsonic-starting-in-1959-french-artist-yves\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">towerofsleep<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jahsonic.tumblr.com\/post\/84752127966\/starting-in-1959-french-artist-yves\">jahsonic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Starting in 1959, French artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/Yves_Klein\" title=\"Yves Klein\">Yves Klein<\/a>\u00a0sold\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/Empty_space\" title=\"Empty space\">empty space<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/Gold\" title=\"Gold\">gold<\/a>. The customer would receive a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/Cheque\" title=\"Cheque\">cheque<\/a>\u00a0certifying the purchase of a\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/Zone_of_Immaterial_Pictorial_Sensibility\" title=\"Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility\">Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The cheque above was bought by Jacques Kugel December 7, 1959\u00a0<a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:ImmaterielZoneKlein.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:ImmaterielZoneKlein.jpg\">[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It reads: \u201cRe\u00e7u Vingt Grammes d\u2019Or Fin contre une Zone de Sensibilit\u00e9 Picturale Immat\u00e9rielle\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In English: \u201cReceived Twenty Grams of Gold Leaf against a Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The current price of 20 grams of gold is $835.59.<\/p>\n<p>If the buyer wished, the purchase could be completed in an elaborate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/Ritual\" title=\"Ritual\">ritual<\/a>\u00a0in which the buyer would burn the cheque, and Yves Klein would throw half of the gold into the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/Seine\" title=\"Seine\">Seine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this photo<a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:ZoneImmaterielKlein2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:ZoneImmaterielKlein2.jpg\">[2]<\/a>, we can see how Yves Klein (with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/Dino_Buzzati\" title=\"Dino Buzzati\">Dino Buzzati<\/a>\u00a0to the right as witness) is engaged in the ritual transfer of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/Immateriality\" title=\"Immateriality\">immateriality<\/a>\u00a0on January 26, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/Selling_air\" title=\"Selling air\">selling air<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/Dissipation\" title=\"Dissipation\">dissipation<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/Excess\" title=\"Excess\">excess<\/a>, Georges Bataille\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/General_economy\" title=\"General economy\">general economy<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/Sumptuary_law\" title=\"Sumptuary law\">sumptuary law<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/Conspicuous_consumption\" title=\"Conspicuous consumption\">conspicuous consumption<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/Destruction_of_money\" title=\"Destruction of money\">destruction of money<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandpopularculture.com\/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid\" title=\"K Foundation Burn a Million Quid\">K Foundation Burn a Million Quid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&lt;3 Yves<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>towerofsleep: jahsonic: Starting in 1959, French artist\u00a0Yves Klein\u00a0sold\u00a0empty space\u00a0for\u00a0gold. The customer would receive a\u00a0cheque\u00a0certifying the purchase of a\u00a0Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility. The cheque above was bought by Jacques Kugel December 7, 1959\u00a0[1]. It reads: \u201cRe\u00e7u Vingt Grammes d\u2019Or Fin contre une Zone de Sensibilit\u00e9 Picturale Immat\u00e9rielle\u201d In English: \u201cReceived Twenty Grams of Gold Leaf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4sK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17160,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17158\/revisions\/17160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}