Mitterrand presents Cosmic Landscapes, an exhibition that explores the links between the cosmos, perception, and immateriality, in resonance with the complex thought developed by Edgar Morin.
Bringing together works by Yves Klein, Lita Albuquerque, and Jack Goldstein, the exhibition explores the connections between the cosmos, perception, and invisible phenomena.
Through his exploration of immateriality, void, and invisible energy, Yves Klein opens up a total perceptual field, notably embodied by the IKB blue, which transcends the materiality of the work to become experience. His practice, situated at the intersection of body, matter, and cosmos, resonates deeply with Morin’s principles of complex thought, where reality unfolds simultaneously as a physical, symbolic, and perceptual phenomenon.
Lita Albuquerque’s works extend this reflection into a cosmological and systemic dimension. By articulating art, science, geography, and memory, her practice highlights the relationships between Earth and the cosmos. Her projects, such as Stellar Axis, express an interdisciplinary vision of the world, fully aligned with Morin’s idea of interconnected knowledge and systems.
At the other end of this constellation, Jack Goldstein’s works introduce phenomena of intensity and rupture. His images of lightning, eruptions, and extreme events reveal brief yet powerful manifestations of invisible forces. Between quasi-scientific precision and spectacular dimension, they embody the irruption of disorder within a system, revealing the unstable and unpredictable dynamics that run through reality.
By bringing these three artists together, Cosmic Landscapes proposes a journey from the cosmos to the event, from the global to the perceptual. The exhibition thus outlines a vision of the world shaped by relationships, tensions, and transformations.
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Jack Goldstein, Untitled (Night Sky), 1983