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Artist
Bertrand Lavier
b. 1949, Châtillon-sur-Seine, France · Based in Paris & Aignay-le-Duc, France
- Horticultural Studies, École Nationale Supérieure d'Horticulture, Versailles (1971)
- Sculpture
- Painting
- Found Object
Bertrand Lavier is a prominent French conceptual artist renowned for his signature method of coating everyday manufactured objects—such as pianos, refrigerators, and street signs—in a thick, painterly impasto he terms 'Van Gogh touch'. His hybrid creations destabilize the hierarchy between painting and industrial readymades.
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