Ben Vautier Assemblage Installation, Paris — Art Brut Signage

5 October 2017 · Paris

Ben Vautier's art brut installations pile language onto every surface — hand-lettered boards stacked floor to ceiling, found objects bolted into painted eyes, fragments of French text colliding in mid-air. "Libre self-service du dis..." runs across one beam; "Centre Art Total" bleeds red below it. The whole thing operates as a manifesto in three dimensions: art is everywhere, authorship is a provocation, and the museum wall is just another thing to write on.