Le bleu du ciel
Higher Regional School of Plastic Expression, Tourcoing, 1994 and Paris and Munich in 1995 (Unesco Award).
Two computers, one located in Tourcoing and the other in Toulon, were connected by telephone. They calculated in real time the average of the colours in the northern and southern skies.
New 2026 edition of Le Bleu du Ciel from L’Abécédaire
First version of Le Bleu du Ciel at the Tourcoing School of Fine Arts in 1994
Behind a small monochrome is a double interactive process, the interaction of the building’s interior with inner self, and that of the exterior with the planet.
An interactive sky:
The colour of the sky influences our temperament, our vision of the world.
This vision influences our perception of the colour of time.
People are extraverted in the south, introverted in the north; they are
gay in spring, melancholic when the sky is heavy and low. The colour of the sky
is an interactive fiction. The purpose of this project lies in the imaginary sky, a ubiquitous sky that exists somewhere between the north and the south, somewhere in our imagination. A never-ending sky. The infinite complexity of the telephone network. These live and imaginary monochromes, in harmony with
real skies thousands of kilometres away, are a continuation of Yves Klein’s
project and his monochromes.
The same project was carried out in 1995 between Paris and Munich (UNESCO Prize).
Stéphan Barron configuring Le Bleu du Ciel
Texts on Le Bleu du Ciel
RESTANY Pierre, « Discussion sur le Bleu du Ciel », Cédérom Art Planétaire et Romantisme Techno-écologique, Ed. Rien de Spécial, Secqueville-en-Bessin, 2000
DE KERKHOVE Derrick, « Le point d’être dans l’installation du Bleu du Ciel », Cédérom Art Planétaire et Romantisme Techno-écologique, Ed. Rien de Spécial, Secqueville-en-Bessin, 2000
LAZSLO Jean-Noël, R5C9R5C9R5C9…, Cédérom Art Planétaire et Romantisme Techno-écologique, Ed. Rien de Spécial, Secqueville-en-Bessin, 2000