The gallery is delighted to invite you on Saturday 10 February from 6 pm to the lecture FLUXUS, told by Caterina Gualco and Ben Vautier Alison Knowles, Ben…
The gallery is delighted to invite you on Saturday 10 February from 6 pm to the lecture FLUXUS, told by Caterina Gualco and Ben Vautier Alison Knowles, Ben Patterson, Larry Miller, Ben Vautier Fluxus concert, Théâtre de Nice, 2003 Fluxus is a state of mind named by George Maciunas in the early 1960s. It was then joined by George Brecht, Yoko Ono, Ben Vautier, Dick Higgins, Ben Patterson, Name June Paik, Takato Saito, Vostell and many other artists. « It is a matter of taking art not as a "doing" but as entertainment. Art must amuse, astonish, entertain. Nor must it be a source of profit. » This is of course the legacy of Marcel Duchamp. Following Dada, Fluxus artists boycotted art in galleries and music in concerts. They questioned the status of the artwork, the role of the artist and the place of art in society. Humour and derision were placed at the heart of the approach and contribute to defining Fluxus as a non-movement, creating anti-art. As part of the exhibition No more pink? by Ben Patterson, Caterina Gualco founder of the Galerie Unimedia Modern in Genoa, and the artist Ben Vautier, tell the story, from experiments to anecdotes, of the Fluxus movement, on Saturday 10 February from 6 pm.
