Lot 47
  • 47

BERNAR VENET | 226.5° Arc x 5

Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 EUR
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Description

  • Bernar Venet
  • 226.5° Arc x 5
  • rolled steel
  • 174 x 176 x 40 cm; 68  1/2  x 69  5/16  x 15  3/4  in.
  • Executed in 1998.

Provenance

Galerie Fuchs, Berlin
Galerie Leu, Munich
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007

Exhibited

Berlin, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Bernar Venet: Galerie Haas & Fuchs | Bernar Venet |ARCS, 4 May – 23 June 2001

Condition

Please refer to the Contemporary Art department for an update image of this work (joelle.koops@sothebys.com). The overall surface presents small traces of oxidation and rust, in keeping with the natural ageing of the object. This work is in in very good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

Working on a concept means stretching it, making it understood differently. It means resituating it from its place of origin. It is the opposite of tinkering about inside a pre-existing schema. It is to criticize the idea of a stable state. [...] The stable state is a cultural danger, the alienation of creativity. The artistic endeavour should rather be seen as an open space, where nothing is certain, where everything is always engaged in a process of re-conceptualization. It's a work of questioning, more complex than that of certain artists who have found a formula and unflaggingly repeat it.

This work is registered in the artist's archives under inventory number bv98s17. This work is eligible for a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist upon request from the buyer.