Richard Texier
Richard Texier (born 28 June 1955) is a French painter and sculptor who lives in Paris. He grew up in the Poitevin region of western France and studied art and architecture in Paris, earning a degree from the École spéciale d'architecture and a doctorate in plastic art from the Sorbonne.
In 1979 he moved to New York, where he started a “Nomadic Workshops” approach, creating art in many places around the world. He had his first major showing at the 1982 FIAC in Paris with the Claudine Bréguet gallery. In 1989 the French government commissioned him to make a series of tapestries about the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man for the Revolution’s 200th anniversary; the works were shown at major venues in Paris and elsewhere.
His more recent works include Chaosmos (begun in 2009), Pantheo-Vortex (2011), and Elastogénèse (2013). Chaosmos is an ongoing series of more than 100 paintings that mixes ideas of chaos and order. The concept draws on James Joyce and later thinkers who described chaos as a center of rhythm and energy. Texier sees Chaosmos as a way to celebrate energy and the history of the world, uniting space and time in his art.
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