Richard Texier was born in 1955 on the French west coast and now lives and works in Paris.
Today he is widely regarded as one of the best living artists of his generation.
He began painting at ta young age and his keen interest in the history of astronomy largely inspired the creation of his own personnel cosmography ;Theoria Sacra is a later excellent example of his passion.
Since 1992 he has created a number of sculpted works, most notably his bronze mythological animals which have contributed to his interpretation of the concept of hybridisation.
His current work is based on the Pantheo Vortex, an artistic exploration of the mystery of the world.
His works are to be found in numerous important public and private collections, both in France and abroad .
Many major museums around the world have exhibited his work including the National museum of Taiwan, the National museum of Luxemburg, the Marine Museum in Paris, the Botanical museum of Brussels, the House of Culture Moscow and the Shangai museum of Fine Art.
Two major themes structure and may be interpreted from his work, those of hybridisation and the mystery of the world.
1. Hybridisation : Mythological animals
Hybridisation is a salutary quest for humanity.Richard Texier has used this inspiration to imagine a series of mythological beasts.
Since time immemorial great civilisations such as ancient Greece, pre-columbien America, China of the emperors and mysterious Egypt have created mythological animals, half Gods and protectors and inspirers of existence.Today we live a different form of hybridisation, that of ideas, knowledge, territories, peoples and cultures. Richard Texier celebrates this great world movement through a series of works: Bionics, Hybrids and Generis.
2. A celebration of mistery : Theoria Sacra - Pantheo Vortex
A creative strategy to address the mystery and magical dimension of existence.The western world since the time of Rene Descartes has lived an obsessive objectivity, a drunken rationality and a general denial of all things magical. In the case of Arica Asia and Latin America things however are very different.
Art is the only non dogmatic, non religious means to address such a sensitive subject as the magic of the world and existence.A subject which reveals itself little by little through tentative artistic exploration.
Theoria Sacra: paintings on canvas.
Pantheo Vortex:The result of this exploratory work aims to create a body of photos or more precisely a body of artificially created images offering a vision of enhansed reality through computer processing. Each image shares an identical composition that of a centralised subject suspended in a white light. The images are surrounded by a translucent porcelain like insulating material, a protective sheath or cocoon protecting the image from it's immediate environment.
Richard Texier was born in 1955 on the French west coast and now lives and works in Paris.
Today he is widely regarded as one of the best living artists of his generation.
He began painting at ta young age and his keen interest in the history of astronomy largely inspired the creation of his own personnel cosmography ;Theoria Sacra is a later excellent example of his passion.
Since 1992 he has created a number of sculpted works, most notably his bronze mythological animals which have contributed to his interpretation of the concept of hybridisation.
His current work is based on the Pantheo Vortex, an artistic exploration of the mystery of the world.
His works are to be found in numerous important public and private collections, both in France and abroad .
Many major museums around the world have exhibited his work including the National museum of Taiwan, the National museum of Luxemburg, the Marine Museum in Paris, the Botanical museum of Brussels, the House of Culture Moscow and the Shangai museum of Fine Art .