RAW: Portraits of Artists by Bernar Venet

Curation of Bernar Venet's exhibit at the French Cultural Center in Boston including a talk, private dinner with private donors and a conference at MIT

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About the exhibition

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Bernar Venet has spent decades exploring painting, poetry, film, performance and sculpture, for which he is best known and admired around the world. This very intimate exhibit features a selection of previously unpublished photographs brought together for the first time in the United States. These images of icons of art in the 1960s' (Warhol, Rauschenberg, Indiana...), taken by Venet almost all by chance, are truly unique as a valuable mix of historical evidence and friendly instantaneous moments.

Venet began to take these portraits in the 1960s, first in Nice, then in Paris, and, after 1966, in New York where he has been based for the past fifty years. They rekindle the sense of adventure around an art movement that was created in solitude and friendship. Throughout the years, Bernar Venet has collected works by these artists who he knew and with whom he socialized, many of whom were his friends. These photos taken on a whim are another way to extend the collection and the community of friends that they embody.

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From Mar 3rd, 2017 To May 16th, 2017 at The French Cultural Center in Boston