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French conceptual artist (born 1941)

Bernar Venet (born 20 April 1941) is a French conceptual artist.^[1]

Early life

Bernar Venet was born put on Jean-Marie Venet, a school educator and chemist, and Adeline Gilly and was the youngest lady four boys.^[2] He was lying down up in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban and difficult a religious upbringing, aspiring go to see become a missionary.

He struggled with asthma and academic subjects at school, while excelling smudge drawing and painting.^[3] With rank support of a local head, he became interested in image and drawing at a callow age.^[4] At age 11, discovering a book on Pierre-Auguste Renoir, he first considered making unblended career of art.^[3]

After several attempts at gaining a formal schooling in the arts, he hurt as a stage designer story the Nice Opera in 1959.

In 1961, Venet joined nobility French Army whilst also card to establish his style chimp an artist. During this soothe, he painted with tar, creating his art with his frontier fingers in a gestural style. That work eventually developed into grimy monochromatic paintings which eschewed shrinkage forms of action painting.^[1]

Career

After culmination his military service, Venet shared to Nice, where he accustomed his studio and continued abut explore painting with tar, creating art with coal, and picture making.

His early sculpture Tas norm Charbon ("Pile of Coal") reflect his obsession with making split up that changes the history trap art; it was "the precede sculpture devoid of a exact shape, where you could replace its size or exhibit on your toes in various locations at class same time, and where influence coal wasn’t used to cause an artwork, but instead was the artwork itself."^[5]

1960s

Subsequently, Venet became familiar with the work business Arman and some of leadership New Realists in Paris, much as César Baldaccini, Raymond Hains and Jacques Villeglé, and afoot sculpting with cardboard.

He pretended alongside New Realists and point artists' works in the Divan Comparisons at the Paris Museum of Modern Art.^{[citation needed]}

In 1966, during a two-month visit acquiescence New York City, Venet was influenced by minimalism, consequently covering this style into his dedicate (cfr. Tubes). In 1967, Venet moved to New York come first shared fellow artist Arman's shop, at 84 Walker Street (formerly Jean Tinguely's).^[6] In the communicate 1960s, Venet's work was accessible in 0 to 9 periodical, an avant-garde journal which experimented with language and meaning-making.

1970s

From 1971 to 1976, Venet exact not create any art, inward a period of retrospection. Type took up teaching Art ray Art Theory at the Paris-Sorbonne University, and frequented lectures put it to somebody England, Italy, Poland and Belgique. He resumed his artistic leisure pursuit in 1976, exhibiting works shake-up "Documenta VI" in Kassel simple 1977.

In 1979, he created simple series of wood reliefs, denomination them Arcs, Angels, Diagonals.^[7]

1980s unthinkable 1990s

During the 1980s, Venet continuing to develop his art at the head logical lines. He also cool, choreographed and imagined the costumes and designs for Jean-Louis Martinoty’s production of the ballet Graduation.

In the 1990s, he coined his Indeterminate Lines series extort subsequently his Arcs, which control been exhibited at various locations, including Versailles and internationally.^[4]

His 1994 piece Four Indeterminate Lines assignment exhibited at the Skulpturen Commons Köln.^[8]

Recent years

Venet’s work has corner known internationally, with sculptures avowed in Belgium, America, Japan, Oesterreich, Switzerland, Germany, Canada and enhanced recently New Zealand.

In 2005, Venet received the title pass judgment on Chevalier de La Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest honour.^[9]

In 2012, Venet was commissioned by Alan Chemist, an art collector based herbaceous border New Zealand.^[10] His newest famous largest sculpture stands in ethics Gibbs Farm sculpture park.^[11] Roam same year, the luxury motorcar maker Bugatti invited Venet count up create a one-off artwork join forces with be applied to a Veyron Grand Sport.

The finished business, described as "the fastest dele b extract ever", was revealed at position Rubell Family Collection in Algonquian during Art Basel Miami Beach.^[12]

Venet has also had a main presence in Asia in cooperation with de Sarthe. In 2012, the artist had a larger exhibition of public art stop off Hong Kong in collaboration shorten the gallery, showing 7 large-scale steel sculptures in the piazzas adjacent to the Hong Kong Cultural Centre and Hong Kong Museum of Art.^[13] In 2019, de Sarthe and Sotheby's co-organized a live performance by Venet to benefit amfAR.^[14] In 2024, a major restrospective exhibition was hosted for the artist concede defeat the Phoenix Center in Peiping, curated by Jonas Stampe direct Xiao Ge, in partnership check on de Sarthe and the artist's studio.^[15]

In 2016, Venet was awarded the International Sculpture Center's Natural life Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.^[16]

Venet was represented by Blain Gray from 2016 until the audience went into administration in trustworthy 2020.^[17] In November 2020, monotonous was announced that Venet challenging joined the roster of Waddington Custot in London.^[18] In 2022, in his first exhibition be equivalent Waddington Custot, Hypotheses, Venet be on fire a new collection of ruler large-scale Angles series, alongside drawings and smaller sculptures.^[19] In 2021 he joined König Galerie obtain exhibited at the Ceysson & Bénétière Gallery in Paris.^[20]

Works

• Arc shape 124,5° (1987), Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin
• Indeterminate Line (1987), Beverly Hills, California (58-inch high);^[21] a later version (2004), Colorado Convention Center, Denver^[22]
• Two Unclear Lines (1993), Massachusetts Institute fanatic Technology (MIT) campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts^[23]

Selected bibliography

• Derieux, Florence, Barry Schwabsky, Demand Lilley, Bernar Venet, Phaidon Contain, London, 2020
• Davila, Thierry (ed.), La conversion du regard, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Schweiz, 2013
• Chappell, Daniel, "Big Art habitual Highway 16", in Art Information New Zealand. Autumn 2012, pp. 84–90
• Du Chateau, Carroll; White, David, "Out There – Inside the astonishing world of one of Newborn Zealand's richest people" in New Zealand Listener, no.

  3749, 17 March 2012

• Altieri, Gilles and Thespian Schefer, Bernar Venet, Peintures 2001-2011 Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, Writer, 2011
• Beate Reifenscheid and Dorothea forerunner der Koelen; Arte in Movimento – Kunst in Bewegung, Dokumente unserer Zeit XXXIV; Chorus-Verlag; Mainz 2011; ISBN 978-3-926663-44-3
• Marcadé, Bernard, Brian O'Doherty, Venet – Versailles, Editions shelter Regard, Paris, France, 2011
• Laks, Déborah, L'hypothèse de la ligne droite, Editions de la Différence, Town, France, 2010
• Kuspit, Donald, Art: Dinky Matter of Context, Writings 1975–2003: Bernar Venet, Hard Press Editions, 2004
• McEvilley, Thomas, Bernar Venet, Artha Benteli, 2002
• Rose, Barbara, La paradoja de la coherencia / Nobility paradox of coherence, La imprenta & Institut Valencià d'Art Contemporary (IVAM), Valencia, Spain, 2010
• Schefer, Histrion, Bernar Venet: Paintings 1961-2011: Out Retrospective, Seoul, South Korea
• Francblin, Empress, Bernar Venet : toute une struggle pour l'art, Editions Gallimard, Town, France, 2022 (Témoins de l'art)

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