01The retrospective offered by the Contemporary Art Museum of Lyon very comprehensively retraces Bernar Venet’s artistic research, starting with his very first youth pieces and artworks created in Tarascon during his military service in 1961. The exposition, named ‘Rétrospective’ is featuring over 170 of Venet’s works, tracing his art from 1959 all the way up until the present day. Alors qu'il est déjà largement reconnu, par ses pairs et le public, qu'il est intégré dans le milieu des artistes new-yorkais, minimalistes et du pop-art, que son travail est exposé aux États-Unis, en France, en Allemagne, en Italie, … Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon / Bernar Venet , l'équilibre entre raison et intuition. Tracing 60 years of Venet’s works in Lyon. The macLYON is fully accessible by elevators. Bernar Venet est un artiste autodidacte français, connu à l’international pour ses immenses sculptures en acier. Material, monosemic facts, placed there, that can create a certain feeling of dryness, aridity, as a way of distancing themselves. J'ai cru qu'il s'agissait de Bernar Venet, et bien non ! Bernar Venet Retrospective 2019 -1959 This is the most ambitious retrospective ever devoted to the artist. Bernar Venet's research into materiality, of that thing “there”, directly, without discourse, freed from all “metaphysics”, and his taste for experimenting led him early on to consider the traditional constituents of an artwork in a new fashion in a quest for univocality. Bernar Venet usually creates his Lignes indéterminées, Arcs and Angles in Hungary, 70 km from Budapest. It is particularly interesting to see the variety of mediums used by Bernar Venet (sculptures, painting, diagrams, video, sound compositions, photographs, poems), and to explore them chronologically, to better understand the artist’s line of thought through time, places, encounters, to understand its sensitive and moving evolution, the key-steps of his reflection, his choice of materials and formats. It is each visitor’s initiative to get closer, to cover this distance, to own it, in order to access a part of their own story. Reopens on 19th May 2021 Subscribe to our newsletter and stay informed about the museum's activities and upcoming exhibitions! In 1971, he had a retrospective at the New York Cultural Center. Dans n'importe quelle couleur. Notre avis : Le MAC consacre une rétrospective XXL à Bernar Venet en 170 peintures, dessins et sculptures. Bernar Venet, Rétrospective 2019 - 1959 Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon Jusqu'au 06 janvier 2019 On a goûté : les meilleurs choux de Lyon Fête des Lumières 2018 : un petit air de jamais vu Le MAC de Lyon s’apprête à offrir la rétrospective la plus complète jamais consacrée au travail de Bernar Venet. Au MAC Lyon, du 21 septembre au 6 janvier. REALISEE EN PARTENARIAT EDUCATION NATIONALE ET MAC LYON BERNAR VENET, RÉTROSPECTIVE 2019 -1959 Du 21.09.2018 au 06.01.2019 Préambule Amener sa classe dans un lieu d’art est le résultat d’un choix pédagogique réfléchi et argumenté de l’enseignant. This allows visitors to witness the evolution of both Venet’s works and his thought processes. 12 octobre 2018 – 13 janvier 2019. From 1976 onwards, he returned to the arts and his work would ultimately pursue his love of mathematical formulae. commissariat de Thierry Raspail Moins connu en France, le musée MAC de Lyon, lui consacre une retrospective afin de dévoiler son talent et son audace. Regardez Rétrospective Bernar Venet à Lyon - Culturebox sur Dailymotion It aims to examine the different stages that led a certain young artist, of twenty years of age, at the beginning of the 1960s to seek to ‘remove any form of expression contained in the artwork in order to reduce it to a material fact’. Repères historiques et évolution dans l’enseignement secondaire jusqu’en 2000 », Marie Jeanne Brondeau Four et Martine Colboc Terville, juin 2018. Like this first sculptural gesture, in 1963, when Bernar Venet installs a heap of coal to expose the material to daylight, in an inaugural and undetermined volume. ), which resulted in what we see. In the factory at Nagykörös, he even has his own special team. These are works that embrace us, just as they seem to embrace the space that hosts and contains them. Do cities have their own psyche? FÉLIX LEDRU POUR « M LE MAGAZINE DU MONDE » Peintures de goudron noir. Les années conceptuelles 1966 – 1976 ». Tons of Corten steel, in the form of raw metal beams, are curved, bent, folded and twisted until they take on the desired shape. Publié le 24 octobre 2018 - Brigitte roussey - Exposition. Recherche. Bibliothèque. In 1961 he made a series of “goudrons”—paintings with tar—first on paper, then on canvas. Tracing 60 years of Venet’s works in Lyon. He then went on to appropriate astrophysics, nuclear physics and mathematical logic, and took a break of 5 years before finally returning, albeit unexpectedly, to his easel. Du 21 septembre 2018 au 6 janvier 2019, le musée d’art contemporain de Lyon organise l’exposition Bernar Venet, rétrospective 2019–1959 qui présente un ensemble inédit et exceptionnel de plus de 170 œuvres, des premières performances, dessins, diagrammes, peintures, jusqu’aux photographies, œuvres sonores, films et sculptures, retraçant ainsi 60 années de création. Notre avis : Le MAC consacre une rétrospective XXL à Bernar Venet en 170 peintures, dessins et sculptures. Between fascination and immediacy, the visual experience offered by Venet creates a strange relationship to temporality, as though we were arriving just “after”, almost too late to fully witness the creative moment (the accident? Abolition des symboles. Bernar Venet uses a type of corten steel for his sculptures; it is treated with chromium, nickel and copper so that it rusts to a very deep colour. MUSEUM CLOSED FROM 30.10.2020 7 décembre 2018 25 décembre 2019 / Le Boréal Blog / Poster un commentaire. He uses flattened cardboards covered with shiny industrial paint or tar, going through dots, lines and surfaces, to distance himself, thanks to his work on steel and imposing volumes, from the exhibition wall. Bernar Venet à Lyon : - Expositions. There are photos from the same year showing him lying in rubbish for his first performance. Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon / Bernar Venet , l'équilibre entre raison et intuition. Bernar Venet Retrospective 2019 -1959 This is the most ambitious retrospective ever devoted to the artist. Bernar Venet (born 21 April 1941) is a French Conceptual artist who has exhibited his works in various locations around the world. Ouvert du mercredi au vendredi de 11 à 18 heures et samedi et dimanche de 10 à 19 heures. 01The retrospective offered by the Contemporary Art Museum of Lyon very comprehensively retraces Bernar Venet’s artistic research, starting with his very first youth pieces and artworks created in Tarascon during his military service in 1961. (…) The coal, shovelled randomly into a pile, freed the sculpture from the preconceived notion of composition imposed by the artist.”, In New York in 1966, Bernar Venet met the minimalists Donald Judd, Carl Andre and Dan Flavin.