Ben Vautier

Ben Vautier ( born July 18, 1935 in Naples), better known only as Ben, actually Benjamin Vautier, is a French artist of Swiss origin and is now living in Nice. He was in the 1960s, the most important representatives of the Fluxus movement.

Vautier's artistic work follows in structure to the readymades, object art and composition.

Biography

Vautier's family moved often in his early years between several countries around and eventually relocated in 1949 to their residence in Nice. Vautier began to develop a style similar to Dadaism, personal artistic style. He was inspired by artists such as Yves Klein doing, Marcel Duchamp, and the New Realists.

Between 1958 and 1973, Ben Vautier operating a record store in Nice, the " Magasin ". This aroused by its facade and the interior quite a stir. In its design Vautier unfolds his typical style: The facade is covered over the years with a variety of objects of various kinds. The whole he adds with characteristic brightly colored cursive comments. In 1994, the facade of the store at the Centre Georges Pompidou was issued.

In 1959, Vautier founded the journal Ben Dieu. The following year was on the first floor of his shop ( there in the so-called Laboratoire 32), the first solo exhibition "Rien et tout " (Eng.: Nothing and everything ) instead. In addition to Al Hansen, John Cage and others also included Ben Vautier 1962-1970 of the leading members of the Fluxus movement. He was therefore represented at international Fluxus festivals and passes through many performances and performances in appearance. This was a center for Fluxus Nice in France.

Ben Vautier is to mentor the fledgling art movement Figuration Libre, which also receives the name in 1981 in an article for the magazine Flash Art by Vautier. Vautier is represented in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, also witness many retrospectives from the artistic success of the artist.

Others

Beginning of the 1960s took the action Vautier to sign everything that came under the eyes, including the works of other artists and his own body. He proceeded from Duchamp's ready -mades and the realization that a work of art would be seen only by the signature. The company peaked after about two years, in 1962, in a signed declaration to want henceforth sign anything.

In 1972, Ben Vautier participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Department of Individual Mythologies: Overview - Performances - Activities - Changes.

In 1992, graced a motto la Suisse n'existe pas ( " Switzerland does not exist") by Ben Vautier the official Swiss Pavilion at the World Expo in Seville.

Exhibition

Seville Expo '92 Integrated Authority File
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