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Bernar VenetTwo Indeterminate Lines - Contemporary, 21st Century, Etching, Black, Edition2014
2014
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Bernar Venet, Two Indeterminate Lines
Contemporary, 21st Century, Etching, Black, Edition
Etching (Portfolio of 3)
Edition of 50, plus 4 AP
Edition number WHE 4/4 (World House Editions proofs)
77.5 x 100.8 cm (30.5 x 39.6 in) each
Signed and numbered, accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity
In mint condition, as acquired from the publisher
PLEASE NOTE: The piece is offered unframed.
Bernar Venet is a conceptual artist best known for his resourcefulness in a variety of media including drawing, paintings, prints, sculpture, installations, design, music, and musical composition, and for his wide range of expression. In the middle of the 1970ies, he made the line the central subject of his work. Whereas in a scientific context a line is a clearly defined geometric form, Bernar Venet used this simple geometric form to demonstrate divergent concepts.
“My sculpture is based on concepts that appear to be divergent […]: order and disorder, the determinate and indeterminate.” — Bernar Venet
The present portfolio “Two Indeterminate Lines” consists of three etchings showing the particular importance of the line for the artist. The line is not simply a line, in fact, it seems to move, and it looks like a three-dimensional, unstable figure. It essentially forces the viewer to follow its course in search of the beginning and the end. But this is impossible; the lines cannot be discerned individually, instead they form the complex and coherent composition of the artwork. In those etchings, Bernar Venet masterly illustrates his idea of transposing mathematical concepts and scientific theories into the realm.
BERNAR VENET
Bernar Venet´s sculptures have changed the face of contemporary art.
Bernar Venet became interested in painting and drawing at a young age. In 1958 he started to study at the municipal art school in Nice and got his first job in 1959 as a stage designer at the Nice Opera. At the same time, he was immersing himself in painting, drawing, and photography. Successively, Venet became familiar with the works of Nouveau Realism, Pop Art, and Minimalism. In 1971 he broke off his artistic activities to devote himself to theory, and to teaching art as well as art theory at the Sorbonne in Paris. After his academic activities, in 1976, he did not return to his former monochrome tar paintings but started to create wooden reliefs and freestanding steel sculptures called Arcs, Angles, and Diagonals. In the same year, as a result of his preoccupation with physics and mathematical phenomena, he focussed on the line as the subject of his work.
“Making something that is already understood and accepted by the art world is boring.” —Bernar Vene
As early as 1977 one of his sculptures was exhibited at the Documenta 6 in Kassel. The line was the starting point of his sculptural expressiveness. Meanwhile, his three-dimensional works did not simply follow the law of abstraction and minimalism but were based on concepts of disorder, instability, and uncertainty. The basic idea from his beginnings as an artist is still present in his work today. He worked and works on the concept behind an artwork, not just on its visual aspect. His enthusiasm for the physical and mathematical principles of time, space, and action in relation to the line guided him to the invention of these magnificent and conceptual sculptures which marked a significant turning point in his career and have changed the face of contemporary art.
- Creator:Bernar Venet (1941, French)
- Creation Year:2014
- Dimensions:Height: 30.52 in (77.5 cm)Width: 39.69 in (100.8 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Zug, CH
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU156228213152
Bernar Venet
Bernar Venet creates large-scale site-specific installations, works of avant-garde performance art and other provocative pieces that have earned him a place among France’s most significant Conceptual artists. He is also known for his abstract and figurative drawings, as well as abstract sculptures.
Venet was born in 1941 in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in southern France as Bernard Venet. In 1958, he attended EMAP Villa Thiole in Nice and decided to pursue an artistic career. Venet moved to New York City in 1961 and started to garner recognition for his monochromatic tar paintings and coal sculptures. It was during this period that he dropped the “d” from his first name.
In 1971, Venet took a break from making art and spent some time teaching art theory at the University of Paris. He decided to resume his artistic work in 1976 and showed his work the following year at Kassel, Germany’s “documenta 6,” a contemporary art exhibition that has featured the likes of Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Willem de Kooning and others. Around this time, Venet pivoted to working with wood and created a series of reliefs called “Arcs, Angles and Straight Lines.” The National Endowment of the Arts recognized Venet with a grant in 1979.
The grant kicked off two decades of exhibitions throughout Europe, the United States, Asia and South America. To date, Venet has participated in more than 40 public sculpture exhibitions and created monumental installations in cities around the globe, including Berlin, Denver, Auckland, Geneva, Austin, Tokyo, Vancouver and more.
In 2005, the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur awarded him with the highest order of merit in France. He was also awarded the International Sculpture Center Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture in 2016. Venet’s works are held in the collections of leading museums around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Centre Pompidou.
Venet lives and works between New York City and Le Muy.
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