In 1966, Bernar Venet established himself in New York where he became acquainted with artists like Donald Judd and Frank Stella . Over the course of the next four decades he explored painting, poetry, film, and performance, and was attracted, in particular, to pure science as a subject for art. 1979 marked a turning point in Venet’s career, when he began a series of wood reliefs, Arcs, Angles, Straight Lines, and created the first of his Indeterminate Lines.

Bernar Venet’s sculptures are in collections of more than 60 museums worldwide such as MOMA, New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, the National Museum of Jakarta, Jakarta, and the Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea among others. Bernar Venet has also permanent monumental sculptures installed in Austin, Denver, Norfolk, USA, Bergen, Norway, Berlin, Neu-Ulm, Germany, Paris, Nice, Toulouse, France, Seoul, South Korea, Shenzhen, China and Tokyo, Japan. Succeeding to Takashi Murakami who exhibited there last year, Bernar Venet was invited from June to October to show his monumental sculptures on the grounds of the Chateau de Versailles in France.

de Sarthe Gallery will exhibit Bernar Venet most recent works. A series of colorful shaped canvas paintings which depict mathematical and scientific formula and figures, embodying a dynamic, innovative artistic process, searching for a new pictorial language, a new aesthetics. Bernar Venet suggests a new artistic aesthetics of mathematical purity, one which reflect the richness of content, purity, austerity and direct simplicity. « The application of mathematics to a formal level has never concerned my work; thus, I considered that another stage could be tackled by proposing to develop the purely linguistic aspect of mathematics. » said Bernar Venet.

Also shown at Art Stage, Singapore a series of wall reliefs called "GRIBS" which are an extension of the first wood undetermined lines in the form of relief that Bernar Venet created between 1979 and 1983. They have been cut in steel plates of 35 mm. This new technique, in addition to the uncontrolled nature of the “scribbles” is more brutal, less elegant and seductive than the reliefs that the artist has done earlier.