art book cologne GmbH & Co. KG
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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Publisher | Kehrer |
Year | 2015 |
Cover | Softcover |
Language | German |
ISBN | 978-3-86828-648-9 |
Pages | 316 |
Weight | 1290 g |
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Contributors | Andres Pardey, Margriet Schavemaker, Roland Wetzel et al. |
Type of book | Exhib'publication |
Museum / Place | Museum Tinguely, Basel |
Article ID | art-16450 |
Ben Vautier has been a presence in language and art as an artist, performer, organizer, and inventor since the late 1950s. He is among the pioneers of Fluxus in Europe and was a close colleague of artists at the École de Nice – César, Arman, Yves Klein, and others. He is known for his written paintings, which, with single words or short, concise sentences, trigger contemplation or smiles.
His performance – he calls them "Gestes" – often move in a social and political discourse. Ben is one of the first artists who brought art out on the streets and in this way expanded the terms of art.
Under the title Is everything art? (Est-ce que tout est art?) Museum Tinguely is dedicating to Ben Vautier, who celebrates his 80th birthday in summer 2015, his first comprehensive retrospective in Switzerland. This project is focusing on his most relevant works of the early years from 1958 until 1978 positioned in art historic and art theoretic matters, as well as on the variety and energy of his current art production.