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Biography - Bertrand Lavier

Born

1949 Chatillon‑sur‑Seine, France. Lives and works in Aigny‑le‑Duc, France

One‑person Exhibitions

1973 Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris, France
1975 Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
1976 Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1977 Fine Arts Building, NY
Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
1979 Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
1981 “Cinq Piece Faciles”, Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
1982 Galerie Michele Lachowsky, Anvers, Belgium
“Bonjour Monsier Toroni”, Galerie Media, Neuchatel, Germany
1983 Galleria Massimo Minimi, Milan, Italy
“Au Fond de la Couer a Droit”, Chagny, France
Lisson Gallery, London, England
Galerie Michele Lachowsky, Anvers, France
1984 Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne, France
Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland
“Peinture et Sculptures Modernes”, Galerie Durand‑Dessert, Paris, France
Locus‑Solus, Genoa,Italy
1985 “Bertrand Lavier”, ARC 2, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville
de Paris, France
1986 Galerie Buchman, Basel, Switzerland
“Monochrome”, Galerie Durand‑Dessert, Paris, France. Traveled to Atheneum and Le Consortium, Dijon, France
John Gibson Gallery, NY
1987 Ecole des Beaux‑Arts. Macon, France
Musee de Peinture et de Sculpture, Grenoble, France
Locus‑Solus, Genoa,Italy
Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
John Gibson Gallery, NY
1988 Myers Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 Liliane and Michael Durand‑Dessert, Paris
Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
1991 Leo Castelli, New York, NY
Galerie Wanda Reiff, Maastrich, Holland
1998 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
1999 Walt Disney Productions 1947-1999, M.C.A. San Diego
2000 Vitrines, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
2001 Expositions 1976-2001, Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
Galerie Air de Paris, Paris
2002 Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Lavier, Newson, Galerie Kreo, Paris
2004 Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2005 Monographie, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
Art Unlimited, ART Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Contrepoint 2, de l’objet d’art à la sculpture, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
2006 Un Jardin à la Française, FRAC Alsace, Alsace, France
Bertrand Lavier, Space Bloomberg, London, Great-Britain
2007 Atomiums, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

Selected Group Exhibitions

1971 VIIo Biennale de Paris, Paris, France
1974 “L’Art en position critique”, Rio de Janeiro Brazil
“Art video/confrontation”, ARC 2, Musee d’ARt Moderne
de la Ville de Paris,Paris, France
1975 “Artist’s Video Tape”,Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1976 “Panorama d l’Art Contemporain en France (1960‑75)”, Athens, Greece, Cairo,Egypt and Jerusalem, Israel
1977 Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz, Austria
1978 “Focus”, Centre culturel du Marais, Paris, France
“Attitudes de Francois Pluchart”, Galerie d’Art Contemporain des Musees de Nice, France
“Venezia”, Palazzo Grassi, Venice,Italy
1979 “Europa 79”, Stuttgart, Germany
1980 “Parti‑Pris Autres”, ARC 2, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
“Une idee en l’air”, The Clocktower, NY
1981 “37 French Artists”, Stockholm, Sweden
Palais des Beaux‑Arts, Brussells, Belgium
1982 “Du Cubisme a nos jours”, Musee Cantini, Marseilles, France
“1982”, Gand, Gelgim
“Lecons de choses”, Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland; Musee Savoisien, Chambery, France; Maison de la Culture, Chalons‑sur‑Saone, France
“Documenta 7”, Kassel, Germany
Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
“Neue Skulpture”, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan,Vienna, Austria
1983 “Tema Celeste”, Museo Civico d’Art Contemporanea, Gibellina, Italy
“A Pierre et Marie”, Paris, France
“Presence Discrete”. Musee des Beaux‑Arts, Dijon, France
“Truc et Troc”, ARC 2, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
“Beelden 1983”, Rotterdam, Holland
Zabriskie Gallery, NY
“Le Musee decale”, Musee des Augustins, Toulouse, France
“Best of…”. Consortium, Dijon, France
“Costellazione”, Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
“New Art 83”, Tate Gallery, London, England
1984 “International Survey of Painting and Sculpture”,The Museum of Modern Art, NY
“Pour vivre heureux vivons caches”, Nevers, France
“Extras Muros”, Lille, France
Galerie Buchman, Basel, Switzerland
“Ogetto della Visione”, Reggio Emilia, Italy
“Accrochage 1”, Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne, France
“Triennial of Small Sculpture”, Budapest, Hungary
“Through the Summer”, Lisson Gallery, London, England
“Histoires de sculpture”, Chateau de Cadillac, France
1985 “Histoires de sculpture”, Musee d’Art Moderne, Villeneuve d’Ascq
“Autour de la B.D”, Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, France
“Manipulated Reality”, Frederick S. Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil
“Space Invaders”, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Canada
“Metamorphosis and/or Symbols”, Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Nouvelle Biennale, Paris, France
“Sur‑Exposition”, Musee des Beaux‑Arts, Rennes, France
“Alles und noch viel mehr”, Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland
“Tropo”, Choisy‑le‑roi, France
“12 French Artists in Space”, Seibu Museum, Tokyo,Japan
1986 “Terrae Motus 2”, Fondazione Lucio Ameio, Naples, Italy
“A Choice”, Rai, Amsterdam, Holland
“Sonsbeck 86”, Arnheim, Germany
“Le Consortium a Metronom”, Metronom, Barcelona, Spain
“Collection Souvenir”. Nouveau Musee,Villeurbanne,France
“Biennial of Small Sculpture”, Stuttgart, Germany
“Abstraits”, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
“Tableaux Abstraits”, Villa Arson, Nice, France
“Space Invaders”, Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada
“Lumieres”l, Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
“Oppositions”, John Gibson Gallery
1989 Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Opening and Closing Doors of Duchamp”, Genovese Gallery,
Boston, MA
“Object/Objective”, Daniel Templon, Paris, France
“Eight Who Have Passed Through the Opening-Closing Doors
of Duchamp”, Genovese Gallery, Boston, Mass.
“Intuition”, John Gibson Gallery, New York and Basel Art
Fair, Switzerland
Salama-Caro Gallery, London, England
“Bertrand Lavier/Jack Ox”, Meyers Bloom Gallery, New York
1990 “Trans Europe Express: John M. Armleder, Eberhard Bosslet, Kazuo Katase, Bernard Lavier, Olivier Mosset, Wolfgang
Robbe and Patrick Weidman, John Gibson Gallery, NY
“Red”, Group Show curated by Robert Nickas, Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France
1991 Galerie Lilane and Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
1994 Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Momica, CA
“Comme Dans une Image”, Galerie Gilbert Brownstone, Paris
1999 “Original echt/ falsch”, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
2000 Sentimental, Yvon Lambert, Paris
2001 La Collection, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2003 Biennale de Valencia, Valencia
2004 “Brainstorming topographie de la morale,” Centre national d’art et du paysage, Vassivière
2005 “Peter Kogler / Bertrand Lavier”, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Sète, France
2007 “Il était une fois Walt Disney”, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France
“Busy Going Crazy”, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France

Selected Bibliography

Francblin,, Catherine. “Ceci N’Est Pas Un Fridge”, Contemporanea, September 1990, p. 50.
Soutif, Daniel. “Found and Lost on the Object in Art”, Art Forum, October 1989, p. 155.
Grauman, Brigid. “France, the Revolution Continues”, Art News, September, 1989, p. 132.
Soutif, Daniel. “Grenoble/Bertrand Lavier”, Review, Art Forum, Summer, 1988.
Baker, Kenneth. “Consumer Items Poses As Art”, San Francisco Chronicle, June 8, 1988.
Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn. “Inside Outside: Muhka Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp”, Flash Art, March-April, 1988, p. 144.
Biard, Ida. Review of Exhibition at Durand-Dessert, Flash Art, December-January, 1987, n. 131, p. 113.
Smith, Roberta. New York Times, November 28, 1986.
Grout, Catherine. Flash Art, n. 124, March-April, 1986.
Celant, Germano. “A Brush with the Real”, Art Forum, October, 1985, p. 84.
Groots, Paul. Art Forum, September, 1983.
Vaisey, Marina. The London Sunday Times, May 22, 1983.
Indoden, Gudrun. Kunstforum, December, 1979.