BERNAR VENET
b. 1941As a central figure on the international art scene, Bernar Venet (born in Château Arnoux in 1941) has lived mainly in New York since 1966, and now resides in Le Muy in the Var where the Venet Foundation organizes exhibitions every summer. The very radical artistic positions of his period in Nice, as well as those he adopted upon his arrival in the United States, allowed him to exhibit early on with the great representatives of Minimal and Conceptual Art of the time. Particularly recognized for his monumental sculptures in corten steel, his work has continued to flourish and to be celebrated accross diverse fields including painting, performance, poetry, sound, design and photography.
His work is collected by more than a hundred prestigious institutions around the world, including the Centre Pompidou (Paris), MoMA and the Guggenheim (New York), LACMA (Los Angeles), the National Museum of Modern Art (Seoul). He has also carried out numerous public commissions in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and America.
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