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I wrote a loving review of an exhibition by Ben Vautier years ago at the much-missed partobject gallery in Carrboro, North Carolina. Much to my delight, the Musee d'Art Contemporain here in Lyon has just opened a HUGE retrospective of Ben Vautier. (This is the first show I have LOVED at this museum.) He is a: fluxus trickster; Ducampian prankster; crazy Joseph Cornellian maker; pre-Francis Alys; text maniac; Robert Frank aestehetic; fun spirited and relational guy. Here are some photographs and the kid's art at home later that night that was inspired by Vautier.
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The chair of truth:
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Throwing God into the river:
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because "it is not a toy."
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O.K. Ben
ReplyDeleteGood thinking,
well acting.
good result
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