Exhibition
Bernar Venet: Hypotheses
28 Sep 2022 – 12 Nov 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 11 Cork Street
- London
England - W1S 3LT
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Piccadilly, Green Park or Bond Street Tube Station
On the occasion of his first solo exhibition at Waddington Custot in London, French conceptual artist Bernar Venet presents new Angles, including large-scale sculptures in steel.
About
These works, at once sculptural and graphic, define the ways in which the gallery can be navigated by the viewer. These will be shown together with drawings and smaller sculptures to offer a deeper understanding of the artist’s practice.Venet's radical contribution to the history of art is to present mathematics as a worthy and interesting subject for art, for its clarity as a subject with no disagreement over its meaning. After moving from Nice to New York in 1966, Venet became known for a pronounced radicalism, using the language of mathematics and science in his artwork. It was here that Venet developed a body of work, steeped in non-art propositions which he borrowed from mathematicians and theoretical scientists, which formed the basis of his Five Years exhibition at the New York Cultural Center in 1971-1972. Marking 50 years after the closing of this iconic exhibition, Bernar Venet: Hypotheses celebrates Venet’s development over the decades and his unerring exploration of the line as a subject.
The Angles, understood in basic terms as two lines sharing the same endpoint, are one of the most important iterations of Venet's work. Distinct from other visual subject matter, which, figurative or abstract, might convey a multitude of impressions or meanings, angles, as part of mathematical language, can only be interpreted and experienced in a single way. They can be understood as ‘monosemic’, otherwise, forms with a single, unequivocal meaning.