ISBN: 9782843233302    Publisher: Perseus Distribution Services Year of publishing: 2002     Format:  Hardcover No of Pages: 128        Language: English

Internationally renowned artist Bernar Venet continues to challenge himself with a wholly original fresh collection of furniture. Although designed to satisfy a non-artistic purely domestic need furniture fits naturally into the range of Venet's creative activities. Using a blowtorch to cut thick sheets of laminated crude steel he sets up a contrast between solidity and fragility emphasizing rawness and indestructibility.Venet's furniture reflects the artistic vision he has developed throughout his oeuvre. He emphasizes functional simplicity and a plainness underpinned by notions of utilitarianism.
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Bernar Venet is a critically acclaimed conceptual artist. A composer photographer and designer as well as a sculptor and painter he has also taught at the Sorbonne and given lectures in Europe and the United States. The multifaceted body of work that he has created over the last 30 years is constantly being enriched by new artistic developments. He lives in New York City.
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