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Richard Texier
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Richard Texier is a French painter and sculptor, born in (1955-06-28)June 28, 1955. He lives and works in Paris.
Texier spent his childhood in the Poitevin region of Western France. In 1973, Texier went to college in Paris. He graduated with a degree in art and architecture from the École spéciale d'architecture and later received a doctorate in Plastic Art from the Sorbonne.
In 1979, Texier moved to New York City, where he initiates a nomadic strategy of creation which he names "Nomadic Workshops"...this strategy subsequently enables him to multiply his workshop space to venues all over the world:
Texier's most recent works include Chaosmos 2009, Pantheo Vortex 2011, and Elastogénèse 2013.
Chaosmos
« In 2009 that Richard Texier began a series of special paintings entitled Chaosmos, this ongoing work which comprises more than a hundred paintings has been continued parallel to other more recent works such as Pantheo Vortex. The word Chaosmos was first used in 1939 by James Joyce in Finnegans Wake whereby he states that the universe cannot function without embracing the concept of chaos.Moreover the cosmos and chaos are indissociably united in a vast continuum of order and disorder. At the beginning of the 1970s Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari revisited the Joycian cosmos, notably in their "Mille Plateaux" affirming that "chaos is not the opposite of rhythm, it is more the center of all centers". It is literally this center of all centers that Texier, as an artistic astrophysisist attempts to define, and restore. Chaosmos is none other than a celebration of energy as a concentration of the history of the world. (…) Texier conceives each painting as a means of condensing the diversity of life itself.»
Zéno Bianu « une autre entrée dans le cœur du monde », p. 52, Art press No. 413, "Supplément Richard Texier", July–August 2014, ISSN 0245-5676
Pantheo-Vortex
« Pantheo Vortex is a collection of paintings begun in 2011. The series is based on the principle of The Cathedral of Rouen by Monet, or by the limitless modern artistic propositions of a conceptual nature. The paintings in this series are both photos and paintings. The image is obtained by using a digital graphic palette and aims to confuse by placing the real in the false and vice versa. The intention is not to trouble or perplex but rather to inspire and encourage the viewer to look beyond simple appearances. The choice of "vortex" in the naming of the work is explicit. According to the dictionary definition a vortex is a human pictoral interpretation which enables the viewer, via IT, to formulate a description of the infinite, and that of mystery.» (…) »
Citation de Paul Ardenne « faire de l’essentiel une œuvre d’art à la mesure », p. 14, in Art press No. 413, "Supplément Richard Texier", July–August 2014, ISSN 0245-5676
« Ce projet [Pantheo-Vortex] est une stratégie de création pour aborder le mystère et la dimension magique de l’existence. (…) L’art est le seul espace non dogmatique, non religieux où il semble possible d’aborder un sujet qui se dérobe, par définition, aux tentatives d’exploration. (…) »
Citation de Richard Texier, p. 12, in Art press No. 413, "Supplément Richard Texier", July–August 2014, ISSN 0245-5676
Elastogénèse
«(…) This new series explores the elasticity of the imaginary, the emptiness of the early times of consciousness and cosmos, where all is real as the world invents itself. I baptised it Elastogénèse as it is firstly an artistic rendering of dreams, Yves Tanguy never called it that even if he used it frequently. It is also a tool, a means of embracing reality. It is very different from the vitual world which attempts to dematerialise reality, Elastogénèse on the contrary chooses matter. It is, however something soft, elastic, in motion and restless. This form of movement exists already in nature, and these natural elements prove in a dazzling manner that the soft is stronger than the hard, and that the proof of their elastic, changeable and adaptable nature is finally more elegant than the rigidity of the real.(…) The art world was the first to discover and explore this nature. The sculptures of Arp, the soft watches of Dali, the expansions of Cèsar, and the silicons of Matthew Barney are all intuitive versions I offer a principal of mental resolution, a means of magical thinking.(…)»
Citation de Richard Texier, dans Nager, p. 129-130, a story, published by Éditions Gallimard in Collection Blanche, Paris, ISBN 9782070149629.
1979 : Constructions d’après nature, a work in three parts edited with the participation of the National Center for Contemporary Art of France.
1981 : Lune, l’autre le paysage, a publication in three periods.
1: Research and technical approach to landscape
2 : Precise verified astronomy and representation of the lunar cycle
3: Presentation of various attitudes, installations, and representations in landscape
1983 : Petit Précis cosmographique, a collection composed of 12 celestial diagrams
2015 : Pantheo Vortex", a portfolio of photographs by Richard Texier, with a text by Catherine Millet, Art Press editions and Eric Higgins
2015 : Nager, story, published by Gallimard, collection Blanche, Paris, ISBN 9782070149629.
Films
2008 : Rouge très très fort on the works of Zao Wou-Ki, available on DVD by éditions Biro and aired on ARTE
2013 : The Death of Cleopatra, Youtube and aired on France2
2013 : Gabrielle d'Estrée, Youtube
2015 : Le signe Nomade, documentary on Farid Belkahia available on DVD
Selected public works
The Tools of the Navigator
In 1996, a monumental chariot on the site of l'Arsenal de Rochefort-sur-Mer, à deux pas de la Corderie royale, including a sextant, a coil of rope, and a turn pin.
The Spirit of Time
In 2005, a monumental sculpture on the pediment of the K.WAH center in Shanghai, 1010 Huaihai Zhong Lu, China ·
Angel Bear
In 2015, a special commission by the SNCF for the COP21, Angel Bear is permanently installed on the place Napoleon III in front of the railway station of Paris Nord. It was while reading a report in Paris Match on the plight of polar bears that Richard Texier was inspired to create the work.Representing a winged bear of 7 meters in height and weighing 4.8 tons, the statue invites passers by to reflect upon the dangers facing our planet.It is a mythological and hybrid creature delivering a political and ecological message on the fragility of our planet and the importance of COP21.
Unicorna Celeste
In 2016, Richard Texier receives two commissions for bronze sculptures, of which one,Unicorna Céleste will decorate the garden of the new building "Esprit Sagan" in Paris. IUnicorna Celeste is an evocation of Françoise Sagans’ Le Cheval Evanoui.
Radio
"Nager - Richard Texier" Livres et vous, France Bleu, 17 August 2015 ""Nager" de Richard Texier par la librairie Comme un roman à Paris" Le Temps des libraires, France Culture, 30 June 2015 "L'amour des commencements" Carnet Nomade, France Culture, 20 June 2015 "Création" Le temps des écrivains, France Culture, 20 June 2015 "Social Club" Social club, Europe 1, 3 June 2015 "Social Club" Social club, Europe 1, 15 September 2014 "Richard Texier, un artiste nomade" Culture Vive, RFI, mercredi 9 May 2012
Video
"Rencontre avec Richard Texier" Festival de Saintes, Connaissance des Arts, 11 July 2016 "Découvrez l'immense atelier parisien du peintre Richard Texier" LostParadise, Huffington Post, 3 June 2016 "Histoire de l'oeuvre Angel Bear par Richard Texier" YouTube, SNCF Gares & Connexions, 4 February 2016 "Richard Texier au travail" Documentaire, Benoit Labourdette, 7 October 2014 "Barbara Polla nous passionne pour Richard Texier et Pascal Convert" YouTube, Ouvre tes yeux, 5 July 2014 "Chaosmos" Documentaire, Benoit Labourdette, 18 June 2014 "Peinture" YouTube, Richard Texier, 17 March 2014 "A Poitiers et Niort" CULTURE T, Public Sénat, 19 April 2013 "Les Ailes" Documentaire, Benoit Labourdette, 11 July 2011 "Conversation avec Richard Texier" Interview, Festival Pocket Films, 13 June 2009 "Expo Richard Texier au Département de Seine-Maritime" Dailymotion, J'aime Département de Seine-Maritime, 26 June 2008 "Les tapisseries des droits de l'homme" Documentaire, Luc Héral, 2002 "Portrait du peintre Richard Texier" Journal de 20H, France 2, 1 June 1998 L'Arpenteur Celeste, a film by Camille Guichard,Production and distribution, Terra Luna Films, 1991
