ballpoint on paper-ca.68×53 cm a set of nine (9)
Provenance and literature
Provenance: Gallery Mickery, Loenersloot (Ritsaert ten Cate)
About the artist
Ben d'Armagnac and Gerrit Dekker always exhibit together. D'Armagnac attended the school of applied arts, while Dekker attended the school of graphic design. D'Armagnac lived with Anton Heyboer for a few years. Together with their wives, they started a commune in a rural house in Zeeland. Later, the two families went to live separately. In Terneuzen, D'Armagnac and Dekker held their first exhibition since leaving Amsterdam. They held exhibitions in Middelburg, Schiedam and Loenersloot. Their work consisted of tarred ship’s frames, four piles of a hundred posts, primitively cobbled-together wooden huts, oyster sieves and chinchilla cages. The stacked chinchilla cages were purchased by the Mickery Gallery in Loenersloot. D’Armagnac and Dekker came to Loenersloot for a single day to stack the cages meticulously in the garden beneath the fruit trees. I
Ben d’Armagnac made a highly remarkable contribution to art in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe during the 1960s and 1970s. From 1969 onwards, d’Armagnac developed into a leading performance artist. The life of this eventful personality was a constant struggle against the times in which he lived.