New York, Versailles, Budapest

Bernar Venet is 71 years old, he does not like what is antique, at least not what was made before 1950. In the early sixties he painted his works with his feet on the floor.

His performances and exhibitions tend to provoke the public taste. One of his famous artworks, a 60 tons composition of rusty iron bars that creates the bare ribs of a metal-being, framing the statue of Louis XIV, which was made in the workshop of Nyársapáti and exhibited in Versailles this autumn.

The present retrospective exhibition at Kunsthalle aims at serving with a comprehensive view of his astonishingly coherent oeuvre.