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French artist
Bernar Venet's work explores many media, materials and
forms of expression. From the early sixties, Venet's use of industrial
drawings and mathematical diagrams in painting has been a major contribution
to Conceptual Art. Venet has lived in New York for many years, and practices
as an artist around the world.
For Venet, being an artist means not only painting or sculpting, but also
to speculate--in art, science, philosophy, mathematics, geometry, and
music. He is an internationally recognized painter, sculptor, and composer
of concrete music (technologically manipulated sound), and his main interest
in art is to raise questions, to push his work further and further, and
to search for new approaches.
Venet has been the recipient of many awards, prizes, and honors for his
career as an artist of merit. Among these are a grant from the National
Endowment of the Arts, the Grand Prix des Arts de la Ville de Paris, and
Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, France's highest decoration. Venet has
been a featured artist at the Venice Biennale, and been written about
by such art critics as Thomas McEvilley and Donald Kuspit.
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