Bernar Venet is one of the best-known and most frequentl.y exhibited French artists in the international.public arena. Since his provocative beginnings in the 1960s, with his radical. Performance dans le detritus ("Performance in Garbage") and Tas de charbon ("Pil.e of Coal.") he has built up a many-faceted oeuvre.His prolific output encompasses monumental, scuLptures, performances, paintings, instal.l.ations, and drawings, all. underpinned by a rigor and internal.coherence that have made him a major figure in conceptual, art and contemporary scul.pture.

Bernar Venet is one of the best-known and most frequentl.y exhibited French artists in the international.public arena. Since his provocative beginnings in the 1960s, with his radical. Performance dans le detritus ("Performance in Garbage") and Tas de charbon ("Pil.e of Coal.") he has built up a many-faceted oeuvre.His prolific output encompasses monumental, scuLptures, performances, paintings, instal.l.ations, and drawings, all. underpinned by a rigor and internal.coherence that have made him a major figure in conceptual, art and contemporary scul.pture.

This monograph offers a dual. approach: a visual.expl.oration designed by the artist and accompanied by his writings, together with a retrospective study by Thierry Lenain, professor at the Universite Libre in Brussel.s. Lenain's authoritative text examines the unusual, career of Bernar Venet and anal.yzes the uniqueness and complexity of his output. It is introduced with a foreword by Thomas McEvilley,professor at the School. of Visual. Arts in New York,and a specialist on the artist and his work.

BernarVenetwas born in 1941 in the south of France.Today he lives in New York, where he has been exhibiting since the Late 1960s, and in Paris.

Introduction

Bernar Venet: From Black and White to Color by Thomas McEvilley

Visual Tour through the Works of Bernar Venet,with Statements by the Artist

A Path along the Edge of Art by Thierry Lenain

Appendices

Chronology

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Public Collections

Public Commissions

Selected Bibliography: Monographs and Catalogues