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Richard Texier is a French painter and sculptor. He lives and works in Paris. == Biography == 1955: Birth in Niort France on the Atlantic coast, these childhood landscapes have always profoundly marked his work as an artist. 1973-1982: Painting since the age of 12, he is passioned by the Surrealist school. He arrives in Paris to study architecture and present his thesis. Construction based on nature; close to the land art movement. Jean Degottex is one of the judges at his thesis presentation. He visits New York beginning a nomadic practice of traveling which has never ceased. He begins working on the first elements of Jardin de Lune, which he is still working on today. He creates conceptual follow-up works such as Relevé de lune, Relevé en place, Lieu bleu and Enregistrement Lunaire. A series of Calendriers Lunaires one of the starting points of his work are exposed at the FIAC Paris. The Pompidou Center commissions three films on the subject of Artist Propaganda. The essence of his four years of research are presented in his highly praised presentation for a doctorate in Plastic Arts: Lune, l'autre et le paysage. 1983-1987: Several New York exhibitions:follow-ups of Sentini and Sacre Bosco. He moves to the Butte Aux Cailles in Paris where he still lives and works today. He establishes a personal cosmography in relation to ancient astronomical schematics. He has his first traveling exhibition in four French museums; Pierre Restany and Peter Frank write the catalog. 1989: From this date Texier travels extensively. He exposes at the Chateau de Jau and the Ciento gallery in Barcelona. His tapestry collection entitled La Suite des Droits de l'Homme enjoys a wide public success, they are exposed at the Bastille Opera, the French National Assembly and the Arche de la Defence. They now travel the world today. 1990-1991: Exposes at L'Abbaye aux Dames and then in Paris at the Bernard Davignon gallery, Hadrien Thomas gallery and at Artcurial, followed by exhibitions in Japan, Belgium and the USA. He invests in a disused warehouse on the Quai de la Gare in Paris and produces twenty large paintings now exposed in the Museum of Angers, France. A book on the subject is published the following year by Marie Del Moral: edited by Aaltus Cassendi. 1992-1993: A year of travel. He works at the Moscow House of Culture and realises a series of thirty six paintings presented for the inauguration of the Moscow Contemporary Art Center and after at the Botanical Museum of Brussels Belgium. He has his first Parisian sculpture exhibition at the Hadrien-Thomas gallery, as well as an exhibition in Japan and a retrospective at the Chateau d'Amboise. He resides at the Manufacture des Oeillets to conceive a series of large paintings: Le Continent de l'Ange. 1994-1995: Exhibitions in Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo, Taipei and at the Chateau de Chambord. Realization of mural works with evocative titles such as L'invention du monde, Machine à éclipses Mécaniques à lorgner. Many exhibitions across Europe. The French State commission another three tapestries, La Petite Suite Astronomique. Publication of an important monography signed by Patrick Grainville for éditions de la Difference. 1996-1997: The National Museum of Taiwan exposes 150 works. His sculptural work is presented at the Manufacture des Oeillets and a publication follows, éditions Le temps qu'il fait. La Suite des Droits de L'Homme is presented at the Musee de Luxembourg, Paris. A monumental sculpture, Les Outils du Navigateur is commissioned for the site of the Corderie Royale at Rochefort sur Mer. The work, le Centre, le Cercle et la Périphérie is made for the mediatheque in Poitiers, France. Exhibitions follow at the Reflex gallery Amsterdam and the Tessa Herold gallery in Paris. A catalog of engraved works is published by éditions Somorgy. Texier works at the immense naval shipyard of Ponant in La Rochelle. 1998: The Naval Museum in Paris exposes 160 works. Texier resides in a workshop at the Villa HAS A SON IN OJAI 2007: Exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris with the San Carlos gallery, Milan Italy. More mythological animals for DAUM. Exhibitions at Alisan Fine Art gallery Hong Kong China and the San Carlos gallery Milan Italy. 2008-2009: Creation of several monumental bronze sculptures. Exhibitions at M Artcenter Shanghai China and at the Grand Palais, Paris France with the San Carlo gallery Milan Italy. The Atlantic coast, the childhood territory of Richard Texier has always deeply influenced his work. This work evokes a dreamlike limitless universe, and expresses the difficulty of each of us to find ones true place in the immense complexity of the world. He perpetuates the work of the first astronomers in a more poetic than scientific context. Through Texiers' elliptical diagrams and celestial mechanics we clearly see the concentration of an important source of his iconographic inspiration. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Texier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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