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Fabrice Hyber(t) created "L'Homme de Bessines" in 1989. These little green men, 86 cm high and installed on the town's water network, are fountains spitting water out of every orifice of the body. They were commissioned as street furniture by a public authority and reflect the close link between the market gardener and the Marais Poitevin.
In 1991, this internationally renowned artist living in Paris also created the world's largest soap, listed in the Guinness Book of Records (22 tonnes moulded in a lorry tipper). In 1995, he transformed the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris into a "Hybermarché" and set up a professional hairdressing salon at the Centre Georges Pompidou for the 1996 Féminin/Masculin exhibition.

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