From March 18th until April 15th 2023, the galerie Perrotin presented several works of the French artist Bernar Venet (born in 1941), including two monumental installations on the Place Vendôme.
Place Vendôme
Surrounded by luxury jewelers and watchmakers, the ‘La Parabole de l’Histoire‘ (‘The Parable of History‘) aimed at comparing and contrasting two installations made of Corten steel, frequently used by the artist.
On one side, in front of the Ministry of Justice building, two assemblies of ‘Arcs penchés‘ (‘leaning Arcs‘) were stacked in a methodical manner. On the other side, an ‘effondrement d’Arcs‘ (‘collapse of Arcs‘) laid on the pavement in a chaotic way. Both gigantic sculptures symbolized the duality between the creation and the destruction processes that we can find both in art and history.
Perrotin gallery
In the Perrotin gallery at the rue de Turenne, the show ‘Diffeomorphism and Discontinuity‘ featured the Bernar Venet’s Arcs of the Empilements (‘Stack’) and Effondrements (‘Collapse‘), small-scale models of the ones exhibited on the Place Vendôme, but also his series GRIB and Lignes indéterminées (‘Indeterminate Lines‘) inspired by the line and the movement. Eventually his Trajectoires paraboliques (‘Parabolic trajectories‘) made of diagrams and equations, and his Difféomorphismes (‘Diffeomorphism‘) full of compacted, crumpled mathematical formulas explored the limits of Informalism and geometry.
Photos credits: @elegantinparis
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