The pieces selected by Alexandre and Richard Fleury for this solo show, mainly from private collections are representative of the artist's research into the line, an emblematic part of his work. The display has been imagined as a series of face-to-face encounters between the graphic work and the sculpture, where Angles, Arcs, Straight, Oblique, or Indeterminate Lines dialogue.

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"The artist must continually push back the limits of what is conceivable." 

Bernar Venet

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As a minimalist, radical, and then conceptual artist, Bernar Venet early on, detached himself from the figurative and abstract tradition present in Europe and the United States, since the post- war period. The artist, beyond the fashions, persists in a so-called industrial abstraction. Going against the flow of new figuration, Bernar Venet creates a cold art close to geometry but reaching beyond the principles of stroke, gesture, and the idea of individual expression. His protean work, which covers fields as vast as performance, painting, monumental sculpture, and theoretical writings, is an essential contribution to the latest artistic developments.