Moi Ben je signe
Object number1976.0202
TitleMoi Ben je signe
CreatorBen, Lebeer Hossmann (uitgever)
Descriptionbijzondere uitgave van 1976.0201, enkele extra toevoegingen, in kartonnen doos.
With Moi, Ben je signe, the artist Ben Vautier declares all the materials he has compiled into his “total magazine”, regardless of their heterogeneous nature, to be art. These items include the box holding the magazine, whose front side is designed to look like a school blackboard, the paper out of which the magazine’s cover is made, otherwise commonly used to wrap food, and also the stamps and stickers, razor blade, mirror shard and record album that are pasted onto various pages in the magazine. No less heterogeneous are the texts reproduced with the simplest of means for the artist’s book, which include autobiographical set pieces as well as concepts, manifestos and the artist’s notes. A handwritten note inserted at the beginning of the magazine explains the reason for all the variety. The artist writes that he has expanded his field of research, suspending the boundaries between writing, painting and sculpture. These notes at the same time represent the guidelines for his artistic work in the context of the Fluxus movement, which he joined in 1963, the same year he conceived his Livre total.
With Moi, Ben je signe, the artist Ben Vautier declares all the materials he has compiled into his “total magazine”, regardless of their heterogeneous nature, to be art. These items include the box holding the magazine, whose front side is designed to look like a school blackboard, the paper out of which the magazine’s cover is made, otherwise commonly used to wrap food, and also the stamps and stickers, razor blade, mirror shard and record album that are pasted onto various pages in the magazine. No less heterogeneous are the texts reproduced with the simplest of means for the artist’s book, which include autobiographical set pieces as well as concepts, manifestos and the artist’s notes. A handwritten note inserted at the beginning of the magazine explains the reason for all the variety. The artist writes that he has expanded his field of research, suspending the boundaries between writing, painting and sculpture. These notes at the same time represent the guidelines for his artistic work in the context of the Fluxus movement, which he joined in 1963, the same year he conceived his Livre total.
Production date 1975
Production period20e eeuw
Object namekunstenaarsboeken
Object categorykunstenaarsboeken