Bertrand Lavier, artist and art
Born 1949, Birth Chatillon sur Seine, France.
The artist lives and works in Aignay-le-Duc.
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Bertrand Lavier is one of the most influential European artists of his generation. His obsession with the distinction between art and reality has led him to make artworks out of everyday objects, all with a rare intelligence and wit.
Works of the artist
in the Burgundy FRAC collection
Since his artistic debut, Lavier has focused on the relationships between reality and the instruments of representation, visual art (painting, sculpture, and photography), and verbal language, de-emphasizing the traditional concept of art and presenting a concise exploration of the paradoxes of language…
Un réfrigérateur posé sur un coffre-fort, un piano repeint, une Alfa Romeo écrasée, une montgolfière, un pylône électrique tronqué, un nounours sur un socle… l’art de Bertrand Lavier se constitue ‘a priori’ de gestes – des gestes qui semblent d’abord toucher aux principes fondamentaux de l’art (qu’est-ce qu’une sculpture…
Untitled modern painting
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