Artist:
Bernar Venet
Title:
Six Indeterminate Lines
Year:
1993
Adress:
Pioneer Court (temporary)
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Six Indeterminate Lines – by Bernar Venet, Temporary Exhibit: 2003-2005, Location: Pioneer Court
Since 1993 this travelling exhibition of large sculptures has been in many cities around the world: Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Brussels, Kohn, Basel, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, New York, Denver and now Chicago.
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Venet’s work is recognized as self-referential, with the lines, angles, and curves stripped of any symbolic allusions or decorative adornment. Instead, the works operate as irreducible monoliths that affect perceptions of the sites they occupy.
Conceptual artist Bernar Venet (b. 1941) is most well-known for his precise, mathematically rigorous sculptures frequently executed in steel. Within his artistic practice, he has also undertaken ongoing experiments with other industrial materials, such as coal and asphalt. In the 1960s, Venet was influenced by the work of Arman and the New Realists working in Paris and began crafting sculptures out of cardboard. A 1966 visit to New York exposed him to Minimalism, and he subsequently shared a studio with Arman in downtown Manhattan and interacted with artists such as Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt. Over the subsequent decades, the artist honed his signature style, and his work came to reflect his ongoing formal artistic investigations. In 2005, he was awarded the Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, and in 2014 he opened the Venet Foundation, a museum and archive of his work. This year, 2023, marks the 60th anniversary of Venet’s seminal work Tas de charbon (1963), made of coal, which heralded the start of his meticulous investigative practice.
Six Indeterminate Lines – by Bernar Venet, Temporary Exhibit: 2003-2005, Location: Pioneer Court
Since 1993 this travelling exhibition of large sculptures has been in many cities around the world: Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Brussels, Kohn, Basel, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, New York, Denver and now Chicago.
www.artnet.com:
Venet’s work is recognized as self-referential, with the lines, angles, and curves stripped of any symbolic allusions or decorative adornment. Instead, the works operate as irreducible monoliths that affect perceptions of the sites they occupy.
Conceptual artist Bernar Venet (b. 1941) is most well-known for his precise, mathematically rigorous sculptures frequently executed in steel. Within his artistic practice, he has also undertaken ongoing experiments with other industrial materials, such as coal and asphalt. In the 1960s, Venet was influenced by the work of Arman and the New Realists working in Paris and began crafting sculptures out of cardboard. A 1966 visit to New York exposed him to Minimalism, and he subsequently shared a studio with Arman in downtown Manhattan and interacted with artists such as Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt. Over the subsequent decades, the artist honed his signature style, and his work came to reflect his ongoing formal artistic investigations. In 2005, he was awarded the Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, and in 2014 he opened the Venet Foundation, a museum and archive of his work. This year, 2023, marks the 60th anniversary of Venet’s seminal work Tas de charbon (1963), made of coal, which heralded the start of his meticulous investigative practice.