Richard Texier (born 28 June 1955) is a French painter and sculptor. [1] [2] He lives and works in Paris.
Texier spent his childhood in the Poitevin region of Western France. [3] 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. [4]
In 1979, Texier moved to New York City, [5] where he initiated a nomadic strategy of creation which he called "Nomadic Workshops". This strategy subsequently enabled him to multiply his workshop space to venues all over the world: [6]
In 1982, Texier exhibited for the first time at the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain in Paris with the Claudine Bréguet gallery. [14]
In 1989, the French government commissioned Texier to create a series of tapestries on the theme of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. The tapestries were exhibited at the Opéra Bastille, [15] La Grande Arche de la Défense, [16] the National Assembly of France, the International Tapestry Museum in Aubusson, France, [16] the European Parliament and the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris. [17]
Texier's most recent works include Chaosmos 2009, Pantheo Vortex 2011, and Elastogénèse 2013.
Chaosmos [18]
In 2009, Texier began a series of special paintings entitled Chaosmos. This ongoing work includes more than a hundred paintings. 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 indissolubly 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 astrophysicist attempts to define, and restore. Chaosmos is none other than a celebration of energy as a concentration of the history of the world. 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 [19]
Elastogénèse
The Tools of the Navigator
The Spirit of Time
Angel Bear
Unicorna Celeste
"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
"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
"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