https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Vautier
Early life. Benjamin Vautier was born on 18 July 1935 in Naples, Italy, to a French family. He was the great-grandson of the Swiss painter Benjamin Vautier (1829-1898).. Career. Vautier discovered Yves Klein and the Nouveau Réalisme in the 1950s, but he quickly became interested in the French dada artist Marcel Duchamp and the music of John Cage.In 1959, Vautier founded the journal Ben Dieu.

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Ben Vautier was most famous for his "écritures," or written paintings. In 2009 he posed with a work reading "Je n'ai rien a vous expliquer," or "I have nothing to explain to you."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/style/french-artist-ben-dies-wife-intl-scli/index.html
Ben, born Benjamin Vautier in 1935, was known for his light-hearted black-on-white slogans, written in a childlike hand. He gained notoriety for his performative art, including signing everyday

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ben-vautier-obituary-2497460
People Ben Vautier, the Fluxus Provocateur Who Proclaimed 'Everything Is Art,' Dies at 88. The French artist's paintings and performances helped usher in a new age of conceptual art.

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Ben Vautier, a French Fluxus artist whose humorous paintings and performances imploded the division between life and art, earning laughs and admiration alike from critics, has died at 88.. Vautier

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/06/07/benjamin-vautrier-french-fluxus-artist-obituary
The French artist Benjamin Vautier—often referred to simply as Ben—died on 5 June at the age of 88. Ben was a core member of the international Fluxus movement, and he died by suicide in his

https://www.artforum.com/news/ben-vautier-dies-19352024-555401/
Ben Vautier was born in Naples in 1935, the great-grandson of renowned Swiss genre painter Benjamin Vautier (1829-1898). His parents divorced when he was young, and he spent an itinerant childhood with his mother, living in Turkey, Egypt, and Switzerland before finally settling in Nice, near his mother's native Antibes.

https://www.moma.org/artists/6115
Ben Vautier is a French artist born in Italy in 1935, known for his experimental and playful works that challenge the boundaries of art and life. Explore his 175 works online, including posters, boxes, and sculptures, and his 410 exhibitions at MoMA and other institutions.

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/06/06/tout-est-art-french-artist-ben-dies-aged-88-just-hours-after-wifes-death
French artist Ben Vautier, known simply under the artistic moniker Ben, died by suicide at his home in Nice just hours after the death of his wife, his family said on Wednesday. Famed for his

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-fluxus-artist-ben-vautier-dies-88
French Fluxus artist Ben Vautier, known for his humorous and boundary-blurring work, has died at 88. Vautier, who often went by the moniker Ben, was found dead in his Nice, France home on Wednesday with a gunshot wound, according to the Nice prosecutor's office, which has opened an investigation. His passing occurred just one day after the

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/article/2024/06/06/french-artist-ben-takes-own-life-after-wife-s-death_6673911_30.html
Best known for his ironic painted slogans, French artist Benjamin Vautier, aka "Ben", died by suicide aged 88, just hours after the death of his wife of 60 years, his family said Wednesday, June 5

https://www.forbes.com/sites/yjeanmundelsalle/2024/06/07/french-artist-ben-known-for-his-provocative-painted-writings-has-died/
Ben, J'aime la vérité (I Like the Truth), 1996, acrylic on canvas, 130 x 162 cm. With the sudden passing of Benjamin Vautier, better known by his alias Ben, on June 5, 2024, we take a look back

https://artreview.com/ben-vautier-fluxus-artist-and-provocateur-1935-2024/
Ben Vautier, 2016. Photo: Olivier Meyer, CC BY-SA 4.0 . Renowned French artist Ben Vautier has died aged 88. He was found in his Nice home, hours after the death of his wife, Anne 85, who had suffered a stroke. Nice's prosecutor's office say his body was discovered with a gunshot wound and they would be opening an investigation to determine

https://www.artnet.com/artists/ben/
Ben Vautier is a French artist known for his text-based paintings, such as L'art est inutile. View Ben Vautier's 2,287 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings, prints and multiples, and sculpture for sale and learn about the artist.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/06/07/france-artist-Ben-dies/4301717740918/
Photo by Georgios Kefalas/EPA. June 7 (UPI) -- French artist Ben has died at the age of 88, taking his own life hours after his wife of 60 years died of a stroke, his family said. Annie Vautier

https://dnyuz.com/2024/06/15/ben-vautier-artist-whose-specialty-was-provocation-dies-at-88/
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

https://www.artdependence.com/articles/ben-vautier-fluxus-artist-dies-at-88/
Ben Vautier, Fluxus Artist, Dies at 88. Thursday, June 6, 2024. Known for his installations and humorous phrases, Ben was one of the great names of contemporary art in France. He died on June 5, 2024, at the age of 88. According to information relayed by France Info, the artist was found at his home in Nice, and died of a "gunshot wound " to

https://www.forbes.com/sites/yjeanmundelsalle/2023/04/07/a-born-agitator-french-artist-ben-is-on-a-never-ending-quest-for-newness/
Ben Vautier, Le Koons du Pauvre. Photo courtesy of Ben. Did your shop-gallery become an important space for the art community? Not for the art crowd because the art school was 100 meters away and

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Ben Vautier. After leaving his job, Ben Vautier ran Laboratory 32 (Le Magasin), from 1958-1973, creating an environment for people that could be a melting pot of new ideas. It was during this period that Vautier met Yves Klein, John Cage, and George Macunias and became embroiled in the early stages of the Fluxus art movement. Vautier's mantra

https://www.wikiart.org/en/ben
Ben Vautier (born on July 18, 1935 in Naples, Italy), also known simply as Ben, is a French artist. Vautier lives and works in Nice, where he ran a record shop called Magazin between 1958 and 1973. He discovered Yves Klein and the Nouveau Réalisme in the 1950s, but he became quickly interested in the French dada artist Marcel Duchamp, the

https://www.artsy.net/artist/ben-vautier
Explore Ben Vautier's biography, achievements, artworks, auction results, and shows on Artsy. A founding member of the Fluxus group in the early 1960s, Ben Vautier

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Ben Vautier began his artistic career in the 1950s as a self-taught artist, initially interested in music and writing. However, it was his encounter in Paris with the Fluxus movement, and its founder George Maciunas, that marked a decisive turning point in his life. The Fluxus movement promoted the idea that art should be a participatory

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/french-artist-ben-vautier-88-kills-himself-hours-after-wife-s-death/ar-BB1nIwtc
Story by Shahana Yasmin. • 14m • 4 min read. French artist Ben Vautier, 88, took his own life at his home in Nice just hours after the death of his wife Annie, 85, his family said on Wednesday

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Ben Vautier. Sei garanzia di continuità, senza perdita di qualità. Ti piace l'energia del trigono di Marte, una conferma - se servisse - della tua implacabile avanzata. Il contorno planetario è dei più ghiotti: Saturno in sestile ti sta insegnando a non strafare, Urano in trigono realizza progetti ambiziosi per alcuni nati di terza decade