Bernar Venet

(* 1941 in Château-Arnoux, France) stud­ied in 1958 at the munic­i­pal art school in Nice. From then until 1963 he worked as a stage designer at the Nice Opera, at the same time immers­ing him­self in paint­ing, draw­ing and pho­tog­ra­phy. In 1971 he broke off his artis­tic activ­i­ties to devote him­self to the­ory, teach­ing art and art the­ory at the Sor­bonne in Paris from 1971–76. Through the pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with physics and math­e­mat­i­cal phe­nom­ena he found in 1976 in the line the sub­ject that he would focus on in his work. Even­tu­ally Venet returned to his own cre­ative work and pro­duced paint­ings, wooden reliefs and steel sculp­tures. The steel sculp­tures reach heights from 30 cm to 20 m per­vad­ing as dynamic move­ment inte­rior and exte­rior spaces.