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Ben Vautier

Ben Vautier (1935 - 2024) was active/lived in France, Italy.  Ben Vautier is known for Fluxus-Art, Performance, mail-art, text based painting.

"Ben Vautier, Artist Whose Specialty Was Provocation, Dies at 88," The New York Times, by Alex Williams,  June 15, 2024

A core member of the anti-art movement Fluxus, he died by suicide hours after the death of his wife of 60 years.
Ben Vautier, a French artist and agitator who often worked under the moniker Ben, and who as a core member of the anti-art collective Fluxus blurred the boundaries of high and low, art and life, while adhering to the credo “Everything is art,” died on June 5 at his home in Nice, France. He was 88.

He died by suicide shortly after his wife, Annie Vautier, a performance artist he married in 1964, died of a stroke, his children, Eva and Francois, posted on social media. “Unwilling and unable to live without her,” they wrote, “Ben killed himself a few hours later at their home.”

Theirs was an intense, if tangled, relationship. “We called her “Sainte-Annie,” Mascha Sosno, a friend, was quoted as saying in a recent article on   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7911 characters.]  Artist bio

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