ETIENNE VIARD
The frontier of the possible
Exhibition from June 5th to July 12th, 2025
Opening Thursday, June 5th 2025 from 6pm
Nocturnal Jeudi des Beaux-Arts
FIL ROUGE - highlights of Saint-Germain des Prés
14 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris
Tuesday to Saturday from 11am to 1pm and from 2:30 to 7pm
Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès has represented the work of Etienne Viard for over 20 years.
- 25 steel and corten steel sculptures, including the latest creations: Haïku, Org, Séquence...
- publication of a new 64-page catalog with a text by Dominique Païni and a talk by Laurent Boudier.
Placed directly on the ground, without plinths, they come in families – forests, sections, sheets. They are dominated by strong, flowing, vertical lines. They let in light, which punctuates and underlines the volumes, opening spce horizontally. The masses are always balanced. The steel, which is in bars or thick sheets, has been cut and moulded, then cold-bent with dizzying virtuosity. At times, the tensile strength of the metal is pushed to its limit.
