Museum London’s 960 square foot Centre Gallery wall has been painted an ultramarine blue colour and covered with vinyl car bumpers and for the new exhibition "Swimming Upstream in the Comfort of: Homage to Yves Klein".
The exhibition is by British Columbia architect-turned-artist Ian Johnston and examines consumer culture. Automobile bumpers positioned across the Centre Gallery wall resemble the Spring run of salmon swimming upstream and the famous shade of blue paint, known as Yves Klein Blue, is used to cover wall and bumpers to resemble the ocean.
The vibrant blue paint used in this exhibition is named after French painter Yves Klein, who felt the colour expressed utopian purity. The Yves Klein Blue paint used in "Swimming Upstream" was specially ordered for Museum London from a producer in Switzerland.
"Swimming Upstream" is exhibited in conjunction with the art exhibitions "Colour Fields", which examines the use of colour in Canadian art, as well as "ANIMAL" and "Call of the Wild", which reflect on the human relationship with the natural and animal world. To learn more about Museum London’s current and coming exhibitions, visit www.museumlondon.ca/exhibitions.
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