Happening du peintre Nato

Collective
Happening du peintre Nato

Photographs: Claude Alexandre, Jacques Prayer, François Hers, François Therme & Gerard Gastaud

Publisher: Diffusion

64 pages

Year: 1970

Comments: Softcover, 305 x 220 mm. First edition, 1970. Black & white photographs. Text in English, in Germand, in French and in Japanese. Little soiling to cover. Kept in very good condition.

Bizarre and fascinating book on Belgium-born and Paris-based artist Nato, documenting a happening at his studio - the naked artist in various entanglements with naked women, masked and painted upon, with music, freeform painting, sex, and a general madcap improvisation. A provocative artist pursuing a Fluxus- and Actionism-inspired art for decades now, underground and largely overlooked, almost always featuring nakedness, and with a curious sideline in music (several superb psychedelic and very rare records from the early 70's.