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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)