Ben Vautier Les mots, c’est la vie. The exhibition brings into dialogue the work of Ben, an artist who made the word the very material of his practice, with…
Ben Vautier Les mots, c’est la vie. The exhibition brings into dialogue the work of Ben, an artist who made the word the very material of his practice, with the Château de Villers-Cotterêts, where the Ordonnance was signed in 1539 that made French the official language of the kingdom. Four axes run through it: the word as act (writing, signing, naming the real), the word as painting (word-paintings on black backgrounds), the word as territory (the defence of minority languages: Occitan, Corsican, Breton, Basque) and the word as doubt ( Il faut se méfier des mots , ego, truth).
