Bernar Venet
Bernar Venet ( born April 20, 1941 in Château- Arnoux, France ) is a French sculptor.
Bernar Venet is one of the internationally renowned contemporary sculptors. Venet's steel sculptures are represented in many international museums, private collections and in public spaces.
Life
From the age of ten to be devoted Bernar Venet painting. After schooling Venet studied in 1958 in Nice at the Municipal School of Formative Arts and was followed until 1963 worked as a stage designer at the Nice Opera. Bernar Venet began after he completed military service in 1961 to work as an artist and took in 1964 at the Salon Comparaison of the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris. He devoted himself in the 1960s, dealing with painting, drawing and photography, designed a ballet and retired in 1971 by the artistic activity back. Venet focused on art-theoretical questions, taught in 1974 at the University of Paris Sorbonne art and art theory, and then work from 1976 to again artistically. The following year he took part in documenta 6 in Kassel, and in 1978 Venice Biennale.
1966 Venet moved to New York.
Work
Two indefinite lines
Arcs in Disorder 2006 Exhibition 2007 MKM Duisburg
Arcs (detail), 2007 Exhibition Duisburg
Bernar Venet worked at the beginning of his career in the early 1960s with tar, which he processed into monochrome panel paintings. Parallel created gestural images, cardboard reliefs and photographs. During his five-year " creative break " was devoted Venet physical and mathematical questions and opened up the line itself as an artistic challenge. It is the subject, deals with it with the phenomena of time, space and movement in his steel sculptures. His knowledge of mathematics and physics play a big role, but also the question of chance.
As Bernar Venet begins again in 1976 to work as an artist, he turns first to other genres. He creates paintings, wooden reliefs and then begins to produce steel sculptures.
In 1988, he emerges with the 1966 ballet created " Graduation ", which is listed on the Paris Opera. A kind of Gesamtkunstwerk, whose music, equipment and choreography by Venet come. Also in the episode composed Venet (among two CDs in 1991 ) and remains connected despite the concentration on sculpture and painting and photography; He also produces films. So he takes, for example, in 1993 at the Festival for art films in Montreal, Canada, with his work " Rolled steel XC -10" part.
In the 1990s, Bernar Venet achieved largely international resonance. He exhibited in Europe and in North and South America. While he is often perceived solely as a sculptor, he systematically pursued his other artistic expressions. 2001 finally documented a publication its diverse design concepts. In the same year of his birth, the chapel Saint -Jean is in Château -Arnoux, opened the glass windows and furnishings were designed by Venet. During these years he received commissions for many sculptures in public spaces, such as Cologne (1999 ), Paris ( at the Arc de Triomphe, 2002), Nice and Luxembourg (2003), New York ( 2004).
In Germany Venet, notably by donated by the French government in 1987 20 m high sculpture Arc de 124.5 ° in Berlin present ( gift from France to Berlin for the 750 - year celebrations, location on the median strip of the road in Urania, opposite the eponymous Berlin Urania ).