Venet Foundation
Created by visual artist and collector Bernar Venet, the foundation's exceptional eight-hectare site has been home since 2014 to monumental works by major artists in the history of art over the last sixty years, including a permanent installation by James Turrell and the Stella Chapel by Frank Stella. Every summer, monographic shows are shown in the gallery.
A new installation by Bernar Venet is also presented in the “Usine” (Factory) space.
Created by visual artist and collector Bernar Venet, the foundation's exceptional eight-hectare site has been home since 2014 to monumental works by major artists in the history of art over the last sixty years, including a permanent installation by James Turrell and the Stella Chapel by Frank Stella. Every summer, monographic shows are shown in the gallery.
A new installation by Bernar Venet is also presented in the “Usine” (Factory) space.
Programme
Sculpture park
The tour includes James Turrell's Skyspace, works by Larry Bell, Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, and the Stella Chapel.
Le Plein, a tribute to Arman
Bernar Venet pays tribute to his close friend Arman, who passed away twenty years ago and whose support for the young artist is well known. Venet was only 22 years old when they met in Nice in 1963.
The exhibition recreates Le Plein, a landmark artistic gesture that took place at the Iris Clert Gallery in Paris in 1960. Two years after The Void by his friend Yves Klein at the same venue, Arman staged a radically different intervention by filling the gallery from floor to ceiling with a chaotic mass of objects: crates, bicycles, plastic bags and other miscellaneous items. With this bold act, he reasserted the object as valid artistic material, making a formal, theoretical and sociological statement of unprecedented scope. Just two days later, art critic Pierre Restany wrote the manifesto of Nouveau Réalisme and declared Le Plein to be the dimensional and symbolic antithesis of The Void of Klein.
Ralph Gibson : Vu, Imprévu
A world-renowned photographer, Ralph Gibson is also a talented guitarist. For him, melody stands to music as reality does to photography. Seen, Unforeseen offers a unique opportunity to revisit fifteen of his iconic shots, all taken between 1968 and 1990, each accompanied by a specially composed, performed and recorded musical piece by the artist himself in his New York studio. A video work completes this fusion of image and sound—an artistic dialogue to which Ralph Gibson attaches particular importance.
Access
Venet Foundation
Chemin du Moulin-des-Serres
83490 Le Muy
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Tuesday to Saturday.
Guided tours in English: Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays at 10am.
Late opening on Thursdays.
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