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 Diego Vasquez

 Born Madrid, Spain, 1929. 
 Studied University of Madrid, 1947-1950, 
 Black Mountain College,  USA, 1952-53.

Following his stint at the famous Black Mountain College, where he collaborated on the first 'happening' in 1952 alongside Merce Cunningham, John Cage, David Tudor and Robert Rauschenberg, Vasquez (left) returned to Spain to become the pivotal protagonist of the Spanish Teatro del Absurdo, which came to international fame at the Madrid International Festival in 1963. 

A multilingual, double-jointed acrobat, juggler, dancer, painter, sculptor, composer, hypnotist and master of disguise, Vasquez moved in rarefied circles during the 1960s and 1970s.

However, in 1981 an affair with the under-age daughter of a prominent European monarch ended in imprisonment and a heavy fine that left him virtually destitute. 

Vasquez (under bucket, left) in performance at the New York Avant Garde Festival, 1968

On his release he moved to the village of St. Peter Purbeck in Devon, England. His current exhibition at the Schnitzler Gallery in Berlin recently opened to ecstatic reviews and the Venezuelan National Symphony Orchestra are to debut his Sinfonía para el Desahuciado (Symphony for the Dispossessed) in Caracas in 2004.

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