Since the late 1960s, Bertrand Lavier’s œuvre has subverted the traditional categories of artistic classification. Exploring the relationships between painting and sculpture, representation and abstraction, life and art, "[...] one of the most important and elementary principles for [him] is precisely [that he doesn’t] want to be the prisoner of any aesthetic" (‘Bertrand Lavier depuis 1969’, Centre Pompidou, 2012). Moving fluidly from one medium to the next within the controlled space of his exhibitions, he continuously develops and experiments with strategies of translation, transposition, and conversion, ultimately disrupting our familiar ways of perceiving and conceiving art.
Bertrand Lavier
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Bertrand Lavier, Colonne Ford, 2017
Carved stone, car light
170 x 27 x 31 cm
66 7/8 x 10 5/8 x 12 1/4 inches -
Bertrand Lavier, Colonne Lancia, 2017
Carved stone, car light
170 x 27 x 31 cm
66 7/8 x 10 5/8 x 12 1/4 inches -
Bertrand Lavier, Walt Disney Productions 1947-2017 N°1, 2017
Acrylic on inkjet print, artist frame
163 x 151 x 9 cm (framed)
64 1/8 x 59 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (framed) -
Bertrand Lavier, Walt Disney Productions 1947-2017 N°2, 2017
Acrylic on inkjet print, artist frame
204 x 167 x 9 cm (framed)
80 3/8 x 65 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches (framed) -
Bertrand Lavier, Vert de Cobalt, 2017
Acrylic on Cibachrome
155 x 232 x 4 cm (framed)
61 x 91 3/8 x 1 5/8 inches (framed) -
Bertrand Lavier, Bleu de Cobalt foncé, 2017
Acrylic on Cibachrome
155 x 232 x 4 cm (framed)
61 x 91 3/8 x 1 5/8 inches (framed) -
Bertrand Lavier, Sombernon, 2016
Acrylic on traffic sign
140 x 240 cm
55 1/8 x 94 1/2 inches -
Bertrand Lavier, La Vénus d'Amiens, 2016
Plaster
177 x 106 x 106 cm
69 5/8 x 41 3/4 x 41 3/4 inches -
Bertrand Lavier, Paysages aixois, 2014
Acrylic on traffic sign
140 x 240 cm
55 1/8 x 94 1/2 inches -
Bertrand Lavier, Melker 5, 2005
Acrylic on canvas
144 x 225 cm -
Bertrand Lavier, Pekkari, 2008
Oil on canvas
148 x 165 x 5 cm -
Bertrand Lavier, Walt Disney Productions 1947-2014 #20, 2014
Acrylic painting on inkjet print on canvas
178 x 210,5 cm -
Bertrand Lavier, Walt Disney Productions 1947-2014 #21, 2014
Acrylic painting on inkjet print on canvas
138 x 228,5 cm -
Bertrand Lavier, Amerino, 2014
Acrylic on Dibond
125 x 219,5 cm -
Bertrand Lavier, Ndébélé, 2014
Acrylic painting on inkjet print on canvas
138 x 200 cm
Exhibitions
Museum Exhibitions
Videos
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Bertrand Lavier - Parole aux expositions - le 25 octobre 2012
Selected press
- Elisabeth Franck-Dumas, 'Tombée dans le panneau', Libération, April 9th 2017 — 772.4 kB
- Philippe Dagen, 'Culture Galerie - Bertrand Lavier Galerie Almine Rech', Le Monde, March 13th 2017 — 105.5 kB
- Anne Kerner, 'Expos Galeries - Galerie Almine Rech', Paris Capital, March 2017 — 1.3 MB
- ' "The Shell" by Antoine Espinasseau', Frog, Fall-Winter 2015 - 2016 — 6.0 MB
- Olivier Zahm, The Shell, Purple Fashion, Fall/Winter 2015 — 514.8 kB
- Alexis Jakubowicz, 'Aux sources de Bertrand Lavier', Vanity Fair, August 2015 — 7.8 MB
- Eric Troncy, 'L'art fait son numéro', NUMERO, June 2015 — 1.3 MB
- London Evening Standard, ‘Bertrand Lavier- Fountain’, LONDON EVENING STANDARD, October 2014 — 191.0 kB
- Judith Benhamou-Huet, ‘La fontaine de Bertrand Lavier’, LES ECHOS, October 2014 — 136.4 kB
- Fondation Louis Vuitton, "Bertrand Lavier – Empress of India II", FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON, 2014 — 1.2 MB
- Art Live Magazine, ‘So many questions: Bertrand Lavier, Centre Pompidou, Paris’, ART LIVE MAGAZINE, 2013 — 1.0 MB
- Le Monde, ‘Bertrand Lavier à Beaubourg, l’art de la “non-rétrospective’, LE MONDE, September 2013 — 444.6 kB
- Charles Barachon, 'Bertrand Lavier, greffeur de génie', Technikart, Novembre 2012 — 1.4 MB
- Timothee Chaillou, ‘Bertrand Lavier’, ANNUAL ART MAGAZINE, 2012 — 219.6 kB
- Fondation d’entreprise Hermes, ‘Phantoms at Atelier Hermes’, FONDATION D'ENTERPRISE HERMES, April 2010 — 208.3 kB
- Sacha Craddock, Stephen Hepworth, Graham Gussin, ‘Essays, 13 October – 2 December 2006’, BLOOMBERG SPACE, October 2006 — 242.1 kB
- Daniel Birnbaum, ‘Bertrand Lavier’, ARTFORUM, April 2003 — 62.0 kB
- Le Figaro, 'Biographie, Bertrand Lavier, LE FIGARO — 153.5 kB