Richard Texier

RICHARD TEXIER (France, 1955).
"Mouvements du ciel avec toupies", 1986.
Oil and collage on canvas.
Signed, titled and dated.
Measurements: 42,7 x 34,3 cm.

Richard Texier is a French painter and sculptor who lives and works in Paris. Texier spent his childhood in the Poitevin region of western France. In 1973, Texier went to university in Paris. He received a degree in art and architecture from the École spéciale d'architecture and later earned a doctorate in fine arts from the Sorbonne. In 1979, Texier moved to New York, where he initiated a nomadic strategy of creation that he called "Nomadic Workshops". This strategy later allowed him to multiply the space of his workshops all over the world: 1992: House of Culture in Moscow, Russia. 1993: Manufacture des œillets, Ivry-sur-Seine, France. 1998: Villa Noailles, Hyères, France. 2002: Starrett-Lehigh Building, Chelsea, New York. 2003: Tour de Cordouan (Cordouan Lighthouse), France. 2004: Liu Foundry, Shanghai, China. 2012: Rangoon, Burma. In 1982, Texier exhibited for the first time at the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain in Paris with the Claudine Bréguet Gallery. In 1989, the French government commissioned Texier to create a series of tapestries on the theme of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. The tapestries were exhibited at the Opéra de la Bastille, La Grande Arche de la Défense, the National Assembly of France, the International Museum of Tapestries in Aubusson (France), the European Museum.