Bernar Venet

Olivier Schefer

Alexandre Devals

French artist Bernar Venet (born 1941) is perhaps best known for his steel sculptures, but he was also an accomplished and prolific painter. This publication highlights 50 years of his paintings, from the earliest tar paintings and cardboard reliefs to later, more mathematical works.

1961-2012 : Paintings

Donald H. Karshan

A Catalogue Raisonné

The Five Years of Bernar Venet

RoseLee Goldberg

Damien Sausset

Enrico Pedrini

The specific nature of Bernar Venet's practice as an artist has often been studied from the point of view of his sculptures and paintings. In this book, however, we felt it was necessary to consider his actions and performances - a series that goes back as far as 1961 - in order to highlight the questions regarding the phenomenon of art that Venet raised in different projects, all captured at the time in photographs. Pushing pictorial processes to the critical point, deconstructing the notion of the artist/creator, critiquing the display space of artwork, devising sound environments - this range of activity forms a corpus of actions that is presented chronologically, along with numerous documents, many published here for the first time.

Bernar Venet performances, etc. 1961-2006. Ediz. inglese e francese

Carter Ratcliff

One of France's most uniquely compelling artists, Bernar Venet has devoted the last two decades to an investigation of meaning and form in sculpture. Venet was trained as a painter but quickly became involved with conceptual art, experimenting with mathematical and aesthetic principles in a variety of media, particularly sculpture. In this illustrated book, critic Carter Ratcliff provides an illuminating look at the complex relationship between form, language, and meaning in Venet's recent work.

Thomas McEvilley

graduation

Philippe Bata

Centre d'Art Contemporain (Istres)

L'hypothèse de l'arc, Bernar Venet

Thierry Davila

Alain Mousseigne

Abattoirs (Museum complex)

Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Arman ...

Le monde de Bernar Venet

Claude Lorent

Internationally renowned artist Bernar Venet continues to challenge himself with a wholly original, fresh collection of furniture. Although designed to satisfy a non-artistic, purely domestic need, furniture fits naturally into the range of Venet's creative activities. Using a blowtorch to cut thick sheets of laminated, crude steel, he sets up a contrast between solidity and fragility, emphasizing rawness and indestructibility. Venet's furniture reflects the artistic vision he has developed throughout his oeuvre. He emphasizes functional simplicity and a plainness underpinned by notions of utilitarianism.

Bernar Venet furniture

Sotheby's at Isleworth, a Private Sale Offering

Bernar Venet poétique?

Bernar Venet, Hong Kong

The Global Diagonals

An interview of Bernar Venet conducted 1968 January 23 and May 18 by Sevim Fesci, for the Archives of American Art.

Oral history interview with Bernar Venet

New Sculpture and Drawings

Bernar Venet

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