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“And one day, I wanted to move, I wanted to evolve, I wanted to go to different directions. And I thought that taking the freedom of getting rid of geometry and going to lines which are completely free was perhaps the solution.” —Bernar Venet
Legendary French sculptor Bernar Venet (b. 1941, France; lives and works in New York) moved from his native France to New York City in 1966, and soon fell in with a group of avant-garde conceptual artists including On Kawara, Lawrence Weiner, and Robert Barry who were developing art based on language, mathematics, and science. Venet first began work exploring geometry as the determinants for his sculptures and drawings, but later broke with this structure, as he continued to evolve his artistic practice. In the late 70s, the notion of indeterminacy itself became the driving force behind Venet’s explorations of sculptural lines and space.
Now on view at Blain|Southern Berlin is Venet’s exhibition Indeterminacy (through June 22, 2019) with the latest works in his Continuous Curve, and Indeterminate Line series of sculptures, wall reliefs, and drawings. Blain|Southern spoke with the artist about the evolution of the series, and how the drawings and sculptures inform one another.
