de Sarthe Gallery is pleased to announce his first collaboration with the French May presenting 7 Monumental sculptures by Bernar Venet.
Back in Hong Kong after his last appearance in I995, the French artist BernarVenet is invited to exhibit along the Hong Kong bay, near the Cultural Centre and the Museum of Arts, several monumental works he created for his Versailles exhibition which took place in ZOI l.Questioning the relationships between art. landscapes and architecture with his corten steel Arcs and Indeterminate lines, we are told the artist’s visual story, the story about his path from conceptual art to public art, about how his installations and monumental sculptures have made a lasting mark on the contemporary aesthetic landscape.
In I966, 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. I979 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. NewYork,The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NewYork,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 Sonie 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 VersaiIles in France.
