Ben VAUTIER
GALERIE BEN DOUTE DE TOUT PRESENTE.
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3 portfolios put together by chance (réunion circonstancielle). Includes two brown paper portfolios, each 21.5 x 31 cm, 8 and 18 pp, titled 'Galerie Ben Doute De Toute Presente'. Inserted are stencilled sheets of various sizes with information about exhibitions, performances and publications mostly connected to Vautier's space Galerie BDDT in Nice.
Also contains a list of publications available at the gallery, and a price list of available works (Filliou, Manzoni, Arman, Klein, Brecht, Spoerri et al) + One envelope stamped with Ben's address on verso containing 31 loose sheets with material similar to the portfolio's above. Inserted are instructions for an event at La Cedille Qui Sourit (1962) and information on a Fluxus festival (Festival d'Art Total) organized by Ben in July 1963 among others. Also contains an original work by Ben with a mounted 35 mm film strip (now loose), a work containing an original b/w passport photo of Ben promoting a poster of this 'Super Man/God' signed Ben, Dieu de Tout and the magazine Tout No.1 (essai) published by Ben and Annie in February 1968. A list is available. The portfolio and envelope include 57 sheets in total. Most sheets have regular age wear.
FULL LIST:
- Ben Vautier, two portfolios Galerie Ben Doute De Toute Presente. Described by Vautier as an assembling of stencilled pages put together by 'réunion circonstancielle'/ chance. Two brown paper portfolios, each 21.5 x 31 cm, with title printed in black 'Galerie Ben Doute de Toute Presente'. Includes stencilled sheets of various sizes with programmes/announcements for exhibitions, performances and publications generally having to do with Vautier's space Galerie BDDT in Nice.
Portfolio 1, 8 October 1967, 8 pp. Includes listings of Theatre/Musique/Happening compositions by Michel Asso, J.C. Moineau, Robert Bozzi, Marcel Alocco and Ben.
Portfolio 2: 1967, 35 pp. Includes promotional text for exhibitions taking place at Galerie BDDT, responses to 'J'aime en j'attaque No.2, various articles on local activities (July-Dec 1967). Also contains a list of publications available at the gallery, and a price list of available works (Filliou, Manzoni, Arman, Klein, Brecht, Spoerri et al).
Featured are some striking responses to 'J'aime en j'attaque No.2' by Lemaitre and Isodore Isou on Ben's faulty interpretation of 'Lettrisme' and Pierre Restany who writes 'Ben est inutile, A Bas Ben.. organisons un pogrom anti Ben'.
Brown packing paper envelope stamped with Ben's address on verso containing 31 loose sheets with material similar to the portfolio's above. Contains:
- Programme and performance list for a Fluxus festival (Festival d'Art Total) organized by Ben in July 1963 at Casino Nice.
- Instruction page for the audience for an event in November 1962, invitation for artists to join (or not join) which might or not take place at La Cedille Qui Sourit on October 2-4.
- Contents page for Fourre Toute No.2 May 1967
- Original work by Ben containing a 35 mm b/w film strip taped (now loose) to a green sheet of paper with the text 'Seule la difference d'espace et de temps entre la premiere et la derniere image de ce film 35 mm m 'interesse. Ben 1966'.
- Small poster 'La Bande au Ben', December 1962.
- Statement on Fluxus, 1964.
- Tracts by Ben distributed during an Arman show in July 1966, and an exhibition at L'Ecole de Nice 1967 (on pink paper).
- Ben et Annie, Tout No.1 (essai) Nice, February 1968. 28 x 21.5 cm, 8 pp.
- White sheet, 21 x 14.5 cm, with perforations on left margin, contains an original b/w passport photo of Ben Vautier. Features a promotional text for a poster with this photograph signed Ben, Dieu de Tout
-Three A4 text sheets 'J'aime et j'attaque de Ben, Tout No.15.' One sheet contains a rubber stamp on verso 'LArt Cest les Autres'
-Bulletin d'information de ceux qui a Nice font n'importe quoi, September 1966. Announcement sheet, 1 p A4, for (Fluxus) happenings taking place in October, by Jeff Berner, Dick Higgins and Merino
-'Pour Arman VIE, composition 17 de Ben, December 1967'. Stencilled text regarding Ben's contribution to an exhibition organized by Arman and Lepage
- Index of magazines available at Librairie Galerie Ben Doute de Tout (undated).
Also contains a list of publications available at the gallery, and a price list of available works (Filliou, Manzoni, Arman, Klein, Brecht, Spoerri et al) + One envelope stamped with Ben's address on verso containing 31 loose sheets with material similar to the portfolio's above. Inserted are instructions for an event at La Cedille Qui Sourit (1962) and information on a Fluxus festival (Festival d'Art Total) organized by Ben in July 1963 among others. Also contains an original work by Ben with a mounted 35 mm film strip (now loose), a work containing an original b/w passport photo of Ben promoting a poster of this 'Super Man/God' signed Ben, Dieu de Tout and the magazine Tout No.1 (essai) published by Ben and Annie in February 1968. A list is available. The portfolio and envelope include 57 sheets in total. Most sheets have regular age wear.
FULL LIST:
- Ben Vautier, two portfolios Galerie Ben Doute De Toute Presente. Described by Vautier as an assembling of stencilled pages put together by 'réunion circonstancielle'/ chance. Two brown paper portfolios, each 21.5 x 31 cm, with title printed in black 'Galerie Ben Doute de Toute Presente'. Includes stencilled sheets of various sizes with programmes/announcements for exhibitions, performances and publications generally having to do with Vautier's space Galerie BDDT in Nice.
Portfolio 1, 8 October 1967, 8 pp. Includes listings of Theatre/Musique/Happening compositions by Michel Asso, J.C. Moineau, Robert Bozzi, Marcel Alocco and Ben.
Portfolio 2: 1967, 35 pp. Includes promotional text for exhibitions taking place at Galerie BDDT, responses to 'J'aime en j'attaque No.2, various articles on local activities (July-Dec 1967). Also contains a list of publications available at the gallery, and a price list of available works (Filliou, Manzoni, Arman, Klein, Brecht, Spoerri et al).
Featured are some striking responses to 'J'aime en j'attaque No.2' by Lemaitre and Isodore Isou on Ben's faulty interpretation of 'Lettrisme' and Pierre Restany who writes 'Ben est inutile, A Bas Ben.. organisons un pogrom anti Ben'.
Brown packing paper envelope stamped with Ben's address on verso containing 31 loose sheets with material similar to the portfolio's above. Contains:
- Programme and performance list for a Fluxus festival (Festival d'Art Total) organized by Ben in July 1963 at Casino Nice.
- Instruction page for the audience for an event in November 1962, invitation for artists to join (or not join) which might or not take place at La Cedille Qui Sourit on October 2-4.
- Contents page for Fourre Toute No.2 May 1967
- Original work by Ben containing a 35 mm b/w film strip taped (now loose) to a green sheet of paper with the text 'Seule la difference d'espace et de temps entre la premiere et la derniere image de ce film 35 mm m 'interesse. Ben 1966'.
- Small poster 'La Bande au Ben', December 1962.
- Statement on Fluxus, 1964.
- Tracts by Ben distributed during an Arman show in July 1966, and an exhibition at L'Ecole de Nice 1967 (on pink paper).
- Ben et Annie, Tout No.1 (essai) Nice, February 1968. 28 x 21.5 cm, 8 pp.
- White sheet, 21 x 14.5 cm, with perforations on left margin, contains an original b/w passport photo of Ben Vautier. Features a promotional text for a poster with this photograph signed Ben, Dieu de Tout
-Three A4 text sheets 'J'aime et j'attaque de Ben, Tout No.15.' One sheet contains a rubber stamp on verso 'LArt Cest les Autres'
-Bulletin d'information de ceux qui a Nice font n'importe quoi, September 1966. Announcement sheet, 1 p A4, for (Fluxus) happenings taking place in October, by Jeff Berner, Dick Higgins and Merino
-'Pour Arman VIE, composition 17 de Ben, December 1967'. Stencilled text regarding Ben's contribution to an exhibition organized by Arman and Lepage
- Index of magazines available at Librairie Galerie Ben Doute de Tout (undated).
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