Visual artist, Bernard Venet For more than 60 years, he has been building works marked by a sort of mathematical obsession. It is for this reason that his work could be compared to that of minimalists like Carl Andre or Donald Judd whom he worked with in New York, where he settled in 1967 at the invitation of his colleague in art and friend, Arman. However, it is a more conceptual direction that Bernar Venet immediately takes: from an “industrial abstraction” practiced at his beginnings, he engages in forms punctuated by mathematical functions, as well as his Undetermined linesmonumental geometric steel sculptures installed in public spaces since 1983.
A major retrospective of his work entitled Bernar Venet : Beyond Concept and Matter takes place at Phoenix Center in Beijing until February 28, 2025. In Paris, the artist presents, until November 30, a series of photographs in a personal exhibition entitled Macadam 1963 to the galerie Bigaignon.
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Lecture listen 29 min
Excerpts broadcast:
We broadcast an extract from the sculptor Arman in Fluoroscopy on France Inter in 1988, as well as Marcel Duchamp in 1960 in “Interview with” at the microphone of Georges Charbonnier.
Guest’s musical choices:
Philip Glass – Einstein On The Beach : “I asked Chat GPT to give me a revolutionary song in its time and this is the song that came out.”
Maurice Ravel – The child and the spells
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Guest discovery:
The book Transition by Marcel Duchamp, which the latter signed to him during a visit to New York: “I was told, “If one day you get a dedication from Marcel Duchamp on this book, you will have a Duchamp.” »
Musical programming:
Mustang feat. Arthur Teboul – Airport
Thee Sacred Souls – Lucid girl
Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence
