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VENET Bernar
(1941)
"An artist is an explorer in the domain of the arts"
Bernar VENET, a few dates

1941 born in Chateau-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, Alpes de Hautes Provence
1963 works on black asphalt paintings saying "black is the reject of the easy communication taste"
meets members of the New Realism movement (Arman, César, Hains et Villeglé)
1966 settles in New York and moves towards Conceptual art
1971 stops artistic activities and goes back to Paris where he teaches at the Sorbonne until 1976
1983 works on the basis structure of his indeterminate Line, made with cor-ten steel and settles them in many urban spaces and public collections
1997 begins a new serie of sculpture entitled Arcs x 4 and Arcs x 5
2005 named chevalier de la légion d'honneur