Bernar venet biography channel

From the American adventure of a young man from Provence to the masterful realization of extraordinary sculptures, Bernar Venet’s journey is a striking and impressive one.

From early on, the artist conceived an intuitive, audacious and radical body of work that he describes as “self-referential” – a system with its own rules and organization. Both fascinated by the American artistic avant-garde scene and determined to find new ways and gestures to break with art historical tradition, Bernar Venet became, from the 1970s onwards, one of conceptual art’s major figures.

The artist greets us at the Venet Foundation located in Le Muy, an outdoor temple for 20^th and 21^st century art, displaying lush vegetation encasing his works with undetermined lines, arches or diagonals.