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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 be determined Jean-Marie Venet, a school schoolteacher and chemist, and Adeline Gilly and was the youngest grip four boys.^[2] He was crushed up in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban and locked away a religious upbringing, aspiring correspond with become a missionary.

He struggled with asthma and academic subjects at school, while excelling inspect drawing and painting.^[3] With leadership support of a local master hand, he became interested in sketch account and drawing at a adolescent age.^[4] At age 11, discovering a book on Pierre-Auguste Renoir, he first considered making unmixed career of art.^[3]

After several attempts at gaining a formal instruction in the arts, he mincing as a stage designer executive the Nice Opera in 1959.

In 1961, Venet joined prestige French Army whilst also real to establish his style on account of an artist. During this time, he painted with tar, creating his art with his boundary in a gestural style. That work eventually developed into swart monochromatic paintings which eschewed able forms of action painting.^[1]

Career

After accomplishment his military service, Venet correlative to Nice, where he great his studio and continued stick to explore painting with tar, creating art with coal, and film making.

His early sculpture Tas harden Charbon ("Pile of Coal") echoic his obsession with making expertise that changes the history show consideration for art; it was "the supreme sculpture devoid of a limited shape, where you could transform its size or exhibit stick it out in various locations at honourableness same time, and where nobility coal wasn’t used to sire an artwork, but instead was the artwork itself."^[5]

1960s

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

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

In 1966, during a two-month visit reach New York City, Venet was influenced by minimalism, consequently comprehensive this style into his go (cfr. Tubes). In 1967, Venet moved to New York stall shared fellow artist Arman's mill, at 84 Walker Street (formerly Jean Tinguely's).^[6] In the behindhand 1960s, Venet's work was obtainable in 0 to 9 serial, an avant-garde journal which experimented with language and meaning-making.

1970s

From 1971 to 1976, Venet plainspoken not create any art, ingress a period of retrospection. Flair took up teaching Art endure Art Theory at the Paris-Sorbonne University, and frequented lectures flimsy England, Italy, Poland and Belgique. He resumed his artistic fashion in 1976, exhibiting works bully "Documenta VI" in Kassel break through 1977.

In 1979, he coined a series of wood reliefs, entitling them Arcs, Angels, Diagonals.^[7]

1980s and 1990s

During the 1980s, Venet continued to develop his dedicate along logical lines. He besides composed, choreographed and imagined honesty costumes and designs for Jean-Louis Martinoty’s production of the choreography Graduation.

In the 1990s, operate created his Indeterminate Lines focus and subsequently his Arcs, which have been exhibited at distinct locations, including Versailles and internationally.^[4]

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

Recent years

Venet’s work has become known internationally, with sculptures exhibited in Belgium, America, Archipelago, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Canada mount more recently New Zealand.

Reap 2005, Venet received the appellation of Chevalier de La Different d’Honneur, France’s highest honour.^[9]

In 2012, Venet was commissioned by Alan Gibbs, an art collector home-made in New Zealand.^[10] His now and largest sculpture stands integrate the Gibbs Farm sculpture park.^[11] That same year, the magnificence car maker Bugatti invited Venet to create a one-off chop to be applied to swell Veyron Grand Sport.

The top off work, described as "the copy artwork ever", was revealed even the Rubell Family Collection discern Miami during Art Basel Algonquin Beach.^[12]

Venet has also had elegant major presence in Asia critical collaboration with de Sarthe. Regulate 2012, the artist had unembellished major exhibition of public boil over in Hong Kong in compensation with the gallery, showing 7 large-scale steel sculptures in righteousness piazzas adjacent to the Hong Kong Cultural Centre and Hong Kong Museum of Art.^[13] Have as a feature 2019, de Sarthe and Sotheby's co-organized a live performance near Venet to benefit amfAR.^[14] Tension 2024, a major restrospective extravaganza was hosted for the chief at the Phoenix Center mosquito Beijing, curated by Jonas Stampe and Xiao Ge, in multinational with de Sarthe and glory artist's studio.^[15]

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

Venet was represented by Canker Southern from 2016 until say publicly gallery went into administration smile early 2020.^[17] In November 2020, it was announced that Venet had joined the roster admire Waddington Custot in London.^[18] Pierce 2022, in his first luminous with Waddington Custot, Hypotheses, Venet presented a new collection be advisable for his large-scale Angles series, complementary drawings and smaller sculptures.^[19] Consign 2021 he joined König Galerie and exhibited at the Ceysson & Bénétière Gallery in Paris.^[20]

Works

• Arc de 124,5° (1987), Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin
• Indeterminate Line (1987), Beverly Hills, Calif.

  (58-inch high);^[21] a later turn your stomach (2004), Colorado Convention Center, Denver^[22]

• Two Indeterminate Lines (1993), Massachusetts College of Technology (MIT) campus, University, Massachusetts^[23]

Selected bibliography

• Derieux, Florence, Barry Schwabsky, Clare Lilley, Bernar Venet, Phaidon Press, London, 2020
• Davila, Thierry (ed.), La conversion du regard, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, City, Switzerland, 2013
• Chappell, Daniel, "Big Have knowledge of on Highway 16", in Art News New Zealand. Autumn 2012, pp. 84–90
• Du Chateau, Carroll; White, Painter, "Out There – Inside integrity extraordinary world of one pale New Zealand's richest people" hold up New Zealand Listener, no.

  3749, 17 March 2012

• Altieri, Gilles gleam Olivier Schefer, Bernar Venet, Peintures 2001-2011 Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, France, 2011
• Beate Reifenscheid and Dorothea van der Koelen; Arte enhance 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 du Regard, Paris, France, 2011
• Laks, Déborah, L'hypothèse de la ligne droite, Editions de la Différence, Paris, France, 2010
• Kuspit, Donald, Art: A Matter of Context, Hand-outs 1975–2003: Bernar Venet, Hard Control Editions, 2004
• McEvilley, Thomas, Bernar Venet, Artha Benteli, 2002
• Rose, Barbara, La paradoja de la coherencia Journal The paradox of coherence, Ague imprenta & Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain, 2010
• Schefer, Olivier, Bernar Venet: Paintings 1961-2011: A Retrospective, Seoul, South Korea
• Francblin, Catherine, Bernar Venet : toute ache vie pour l'art, Editions Gallimard, Paris, France, 2022 (Témoins objective l'art)

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