NO SHOW MUSEUM

Je signe rien faire (I do sign nothing), 1961.

BF | A

From 1960 to 1963, Ben Vautier signed everything that he encountered – his own body, other people as "living sculptures", works by other artists, walls on which he had urinated, the horizon, the city of Nice, "life" in total – and doing nothing, as well. (Documentation)

A year later, he developed a performance (a Fluxus event) that consisted only of the following instructions: "performers do nothing" (Nothing, 1962).

Das erste tragbare Loch. Le premier trou portativ. The first portable hole, 1960.

GF | B

Ben n'expose pas (Ben does not exhibit), 1966.

BF | A

Poster of the exhibition in the gallery "J" in Paris, with the announcement that Ben will not exhibit – from July 18 to September 18, 1966 in the gallery "J" in Paris.

Personne (= Individual, Person; Nobody, No one; Anybody), 1966.

BF | A

Premiered in Nice. An avant-garde theater piece by Ben Vautier, presented by Fluxus and Art Total, which no visitors were allowed to see. The actors peformed in front of empty rows. It was not until the fall of the curtain that the actors joined the audience in the waiting hall.

Rien n'existe pas (Nothing Does Not Exist), 1991.

​BF | A

Absence d' Art  = Art (Absence of art = Art),  1964.

​GF | B

Nothing to say. 2012

BF | A

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