Bernar Venet: Drawings
Bernard Ceysson
Modernes/Veysson, 2021
€120,00
French conceptual artist Bernar Venet was born in 1941.
Venet is best known for his versatility in multiple mediums, including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, as well as stage design and musical composition. He rose to prominence in the 1960s for his amorphous installations made by piling up loose gravel, coal, or asphalt; and “industrial paintings” from cardboard reliefs or tar. When he moved to New York, he quickly became instrumental in developing a radical new proposition involving the use of mathematics and scientific language in art. He began producing monumental linear improvisations in steel in the early 1980s of which his “Arcs,” “Straight Lines” and “Indeterminate Lines” have become his most iconic series. Venet says that his sculptures are about “how metal resists. They are a test of strength—a battle between myself and the piece of metal.” Each series expresses different notions of his interest in the mathematics of order versus chaos. This book is about his black & white drawings, published on the occasion of an exhibition of his works at galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Saint-Etienne, France, septembre 2021.
ISBN: 9782490083404
