‘The artist has managed to find just the right material, thickness and scale to make the arc remain what it was when he began to use it in his work: an unequivocal gesture, intended solely to mark a surface. Even materialized in steel, the arc is undirectional and tends to transform its surroundings into an image, a picture.’ (Extract from Uncompromising Lines by Catherine Millet)

 

‘It seems as if Venet were playing with the massive, large-scale steel sculptures as a graphic artist does with paper and pen. Usually weighing tonnes, his works cannot be moved without the aid of heavy machinery. Yet they are still possessed of a lightness, like beings suddenly infused with life.’ (Walter Smerling)