BERNAR VENET
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Bernar Venet (b. 1941 in Château-Arnoux, France) lives and works in Le Muy, France. Venet studied in Nice at the Municipal School of Plastic Arts and began working as a stage designer for the Nice Opera House shortly thereafter. Venet moved to New York in 1966, where he developed his TAR paintings, RELIEF CARTONS, building on his earlier iconic TAS DE CHARBON (Pile of Coal), 1963, heralded as one of the very first sculptures without a pre-determined shape. Venet is an artist who works in series, some lasting more than several decades, like his INDETERMINATE LINES, and COLLAPSES, which use painted rolled steel to carve elegant, intersecting...