Born in 1949 in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Bertrand Lavier lives and works in Paris and Aignay-le-Duc, near Dijon in France.
Lavier’s work has been part of numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world: at the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Grand Palais, the Louvre Museum, the Musée d’Orsay, the Palais de Tokyo, the Monnaie de Paris, the Château de Versailles, the Fondation Vincent van Gogh in Arles and many more.
Lavier attempts to expose underlying tensions between fine art and its representation, reality and simulation.
Bertrand Lavier’s œuvre has subverted the traditional categories of artistic classification. Moving fluidly from one medium to the next within the controlled space of his exhibitions, he experiments with strategies of translation, transposition and conversion, ultimately disrupting our familiar ways of perceiving and conceiving art.
Lavier’s work has been part of numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world: at the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Grand Palais, the Louvre Museum, the Musée d’Orsay, the Palais de Tokyo, the Monnaie de Paris, the Château de Versailles, the Fondation Vincent van Gogh in Arles, Boghossian-Villa Empain Foundation in Brussels, Bourse de Commerce–Pinault Collection and many more.
His sculpture Quelque chose de… a tribute to Johnny Hallyday will be visible on the esplanade Johnny Hallyday (8 boulevard de Bercy) in Paris from September 2021.
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