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César Baldaccini: Expansions


 



Expansion Jaune, 1967




César pouring polyurethane, 1967



Expansion Performance. Rome, 1968.



1968


1968



Expansion No. 14, 1970



Valise Expansion, 1970


Sans Titre, 1970



Expansion No. 35 (Rose), 1971




Expansion Crème


Expansion Murale, 1975



Conserve Expansion
, 1969. (Edition of 800 do-it-yourself polyurethane expansion cans.
Éditions Claude Givaucan, Paris. Series Alimentation de la Vision. Recommended by Martial Raysse.)

     

   



"In 1968 César established himself as the modern demigod of polyurethane, the inspired pioneer of industrial chemistry."   "The world's most celebrated modern art museums are proud today to boast expansions by César among their collections. These mounds of brightly coloured solid foam have the definitive beauty of organically free forms, and their occupation of space is the pure and simple result of a chemical process carried to completion."

Pierre Restany: "César and the poetry of industrial chemistry." Domus 462 (August 1968)