Richard Texier
Date of birth : 1955
Country : france
French artist.
Richard Texier spent his childhood both on the Atlantic coast and the Marsh region around Poitiers, two worlds that would profoundly influence his work.
Texier began painting at the age of twelve. He studied in Paris and New York and after presenting his thesis in architecture, he devoted himself entirely to the visual arts.
Fascinated by travel, he developed his own cosmography based on old astronomic charts that combine mythology and archaism.
He draws his inspiration from object he finds with an unknown history. He works on the object transforming it into a strangely primitive looking work of art.
The series of Totem of Signs sculptures belongs to this concept in which the work is seen as a territory brought out of the past and bearing the trace of an imaginary civilisation that has now disappeared.
The Donjon Museum, Niort, Museum of Sainte Croix, Poitiers, Museum of Tapestry, Aubesson, French National Assembly, Chapel of the Sorbonne, Paris, Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, French Institute in Taipei, Taiwan.