Perrotin Gallery in Shanghai is preparing to host a new exhibition dedicated to Bernar Venet, a major figure in contemporary sculpture. Born in 1941, Venet is a free spirit with a radical mind, whose artistic journey spans over six decades - from performance and painting to monumental installations - bridging mathematics and unpredictability. A pioneer of conceptual art and one of the first to use scientific formulas as visual material, Venet has turned abstraction into a personal terrain filled with colossal arcs, indeterminate lines, structural collapses, and raw industrial materials like Corten steel. His works don’t seek harmony, but rather tension; not balance, but transformation. From his spontaneous “Gribs” - quick sketches later magnified into sculptural reliefs - to his iconic “Effondrements,” where gravity and chance shape the outcome, Venet creates a universe where form is always provisional, fragile, and in flux. His art is a constant exploration of limits, resistance, and entropy. The upcoming Shanghai exhibition will be a chance to experience the force of an artist who, well into his eighties, continues to create as if the future were his true medium.
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