Bernar Venet, The Conceptual Years 1966-1976

In the 1960s, deterred by the hackneyed conventions of French art and fascinated by American formalism and, above all, Marcel Duchamp, from 1970 onwards, Bernar Venet emerged as one of the leading figures of conceptual art. For the very first time, the exhibition at MAMAC aims to explore this little-known period of his career, which began in Nice and unfolded in the United States.

This extremely productive period, during which he incorporated the objectivity and rationality of mathematics, the pure abstraction of scientific research, linguistic issues and datas such as weather reports or stock exchanges into the field of art, also marked the start of a truly multidisciplinary approach. Alongside the presentation of around a hundred works, numerous archives from the Venet Foundation will shed light on the artist's creative process.

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