artist/ Venet

France

Bernar Venet is a French plastic artist born on April 20, 1941 in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
He resides in the United States where he became known for his steel sculptures and drawings.
In 1983, he set up the basic structure of his Indeterminate lines. He makes them in Corten steel and installs them in many urban spaces and for public collections, notably in Nice, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Strasbourg, Beijing, Austin, San Francisco and at the Grenoble museum. Director Seth Schneidman dedicates a film to him Bernar Venet 1983.
In 2009 he created the Venet Foundation in the United States. The Espace de l’art concret in Mouans-Sartoux is mounting the first public exhibition of the Venet collection. In June, he was invited to install four large sculptures over more than 1 m200 at the Arsenale Novissimp on the occasion of the 2rd Venice Biennale. He develops his variations on the shaped canvas with golden backgrounds.

In 2012 was inaugurated 88.5° Bow x 8, a 27 meter high sculpture at Gibbs Farm, near Auckland in New Zealand. He reveals his GRIBS in Helsinki, Auckland and Singapore3. In 2012, The Petit Larousse devotes a notice to him in its 2013 edition.
An exhibition is organized in Marseille at the Palais du Pharo as part of Marseille-Provence 2013.
In 2014, at the invitation of Jacques Villeglé, the artist exhibited at the Espace Jacques Villeglé a set of works around the Hypothesis of the Point.