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“It’s going to be big,” says Bernar Venet, the sculptor renowned for taming Corten steel into elegant shafts and lyrical arcs. Considering his works’ monumental scale, one suspects Venet makes this statement quite often. This time, though, he’s talking about the July 12 opening of the Venet Foundation at the site of a 15th-century mill in Le Muy, France. There, he has installed pieces from his collection of major works by Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Robert Motherwell, François Morellet, and many others.

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Venet acquired the 10-acre site in 1989 as a private enclave, but as the artist received requests from fans wanting to visit, he realized that “this thing should last forever.” In addition to the permanent outdoor installations, temporary exhibitions will be on view in a gallery designed by Paris-based architects David Llamata and Charles Berthier and built in 2003, as well as in the converted mill.

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New to the setting is the Frank Stella Chapel, recently designed by Stella himself as a showcase for six 14-by-8-foot composite reliefs. “I saw the pieces in his studio and proposed an arrangement,” says Venet, describing the sort of deal-making that fostered most of his acquisitions.

For his part, Venet will contribute Effondrement d’arcs, 2014, made of some 200 tons of steel. “Works of art belong to those who look,” says Venet. That’s a big lesson in value.

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