Biography :Benjamin Vautier, known as Ben, is born in Naples (Italy) in 1935 and stays there until 5 years old. Then he discovers Switzerland, Turkey, Egypt, and his mother chooses to settle in Nice in 1949. When he is 15 years old, he is an handyman in a bookshop (Le Nain Bleu). He turns over pages of art books and decides that: “To be beautiful, the beautiful has . . . .(see notes of biography)
FLUXUS/1960-1972 / Georges Maciunas, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, John Cage, Robert Filliou, Per Kikerby, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, etc. SCHOOL OF NICE/1965-1975 / Yves Klein, Jean-Claude Farhi, etc.
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