“I am in favor of creating works that are literal and explicit, devoid of artifice or ambiguity. My sculpture is the direct outcome of its manufacturing process… it is the ‘how’ that defines the ‘what’.”

— Bernar Venet

Gow Langsford is thrilled to present a solo exhibition of sculptures by internationally renowned French artist, Bernar Venet. Active since the 1960s, Venet’s decades long career has been an enduring enquiry into the conceptual possibilities of art. His fascination with the creative productivity of mathematical principles can be experienced through his use of bold lines and balanced arcs, an aesthetic and intellectual framework that is recognisably Venet’s own.

It is this conceptual rigour that underpins the artist’s interplay between the physical (geometric shapes) and the metaphysical (concepts of chance and entropy). Venet’s work at once examines the harmony and dissonance between these dual principles; the ways in which the physical and the metaphysical converge and diverge and the complex confrontations and contradictions at play between the two.

This exhibition is on view at Gow Langsford Onehunga.