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Private collection, Asia
Private collection, Asia
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La Trajectoire du Poisson
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1996 Bronze and wood, unique, 1/1 33.5 (L) x 10.5 (W) x 40.5 (H) cm Signed on the base R. Texier in French, titled la |
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Estimate
550,000 - 850,000 136,000 - 210,000 17,500 - 27,100
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LA TRAJECTOIRE DU POISSON
RICHARD TEXIER
RICHARD TEXIER, LE PEINTRE QUI FAIT VOLER LES POISONS. – ZAO WOU-KI
Richard Texier is an internationally acclaimed Surrealist artist in the contemporary art scene. Since 1995, he developed a good relationship with the Chinese born French abstract artist, Zao Wouki, whom have encouraged Texier to explore a new horizon in China. However, when Texier decided to leave for Shanghai in 2004, Zao has passed away in the April of that same year. Even so, he marked the words of Zao Wou-ki, and continued to glorify the essential oriental elements through his approaches. Texier is a painter, a sculptor, and a Ph.D. with double-major degr ees in architecture and plastic arts. Texier’s works are widely exhibited at Centre Pompidou, National Museum of Luxembourg, National Museum of Taiwan, and many more, with his most r ecognized works made in br onzes.
Texier is also fascinated with the mysterious, the magnificence of the cosmos, astronomy, which are also present in his works. Upon Texier’s arrival in China, new inspiration was added to his work, such as the Han dynasty bronze works, with the mixture of mythical beasts and tomb guardians, a hybridization of the Surrealist of the West coincided with the mysterious side of the East, Texier was able to create hybridized works in harmony and appreciated by all. As such, his first solo exhibition was held in Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts in 2005 on the topic of East/West. Texier’s works are also in the collection of Museum of President Jacques Chirac in Sarran, House of Culture Moscow and other important public collection.
Zao Wou-ki once describe Texier’s fish as having the ability to fly and sing, after all, Texier grew up by the Atlantic ocean, bor n in the western part of France called Niort. For Texier, the value of ocean lies within its horizon, for it bearing the boundless possibilities and unlimited source of imaginations. Texier comes from a family of sailors; his works are imbued with blue sky and ocean. He once built a small cabin house refered to les pontons by the riverside, he peg down the wooden stake one by one, trying to build a house that can withstand the strong wind and rain. Interestingly, the “La Trajectoire du Poisson” is executed in the way as if Texier was building his les pontons, cautiously with delicacy over staking the bronze on top of the wood. One cannot help to imagine how Texier was drifting away with the blue print of his cr eations when staying inside this cabin, as inspired by the changes in the sky.
“La Trajectoire du Poisson” is truly an exception work filled with poetic sense, meanwhile representing Texier’s background in growing up characterized by his freedom of expressions. Texier is still prominent in the contemporary art world, but as a youngstee, he learned to appreciate accessible materials around him, such as drift wood, rusty iron, compass for navigation, etc, then utilize them in creating something more meaningful. In a recent interview, Texier mentioned: “To be an artist, is to invent a magic thought process whose goal is to express a singular vision of the world.” Indeed, Texier was able to create a new agenda with communicate the reflection of the artist’s emotions and feelings to a greater population.
RICHARD TEXIER
RICHARD TEXIER, LE PEINTRE QUI FAIT VOLER LES POISONS. – ZAO WOU-KI
Richard Texier is an internationally acclaimed Surrealist artist in the contemporary art scene. Since 1995, he developed a good relationship with the Chinese born French abstract artist, Zao Wouki, whom have encouraged Texier to explore a new horizon in China. However, when Texier decided to leave for Shanghai in 2004, Zao has passed away in the April of that same year. Even so, he marked the words of Zao Wou-ki, and continued to glorify the essential oriental elements through his approaches. Texier is a painter, a sculptor, and a Ph.D. with double-major degr ees in architecture and plastic arts. Texier’s works are widely exhibited at Centre Pompidou, National Museum of Luxembourg, National Museum of Taiwan, and many more, with his most r ecognized works made in br onzes.
Texier is also fascinated with the mysterious, the magnificence of the cosmos, astronomy, which are also present in his works. Upon Texier’s arrival in China, new inspiration was added to his work, such as the Han dynasty bronze works, with the mixture of mythical beasts and tomb guardians, a hybridization of the Surrealist of the West coincided with the mysterious side of the East, Texier was able to create hybridized works in harmony and appreciated by all. As such, his first solo exhibition was held in Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts in 2005 on the topic of East/West. Texier’s works are also in the collection of Museum of President Jacques Chirac in Sarran, House of Culture Moscow and other important public collection.
Zao Wou-ki once describe Texier’s fish as having the ability to fly and sing, after all, Texier grew up by the Atlantic ocean, bor n in the western part of France called Niort. For Texier, the value of ocean lies within its horizon, for it bearing the boundless possibilities and unlimited source of imaginations. Texier comes from a family of sailors; his works are imbued with blue sky and ocean. He once built a small cabin house refered to les pontons by the riverside, he peg down the wooden stake one by one, trying to build a house that can withstand the strong wind and rain. Interestingly, the “La Trajectoire du Poisson” is executed in the way as if Texier was building his les pontons, cautiously with delicacy over staking the bronze on top of the wood. One cannot help to imagine how Texier was drifting away with the blue print of his cr eations when staying inside this cabin, as inspired by the changes in the sky.
“La Trajectoire du Poisson” is truly an exception work filled with poetic sense, meanwhile representing Texier’s background in growing up characterized by his freedom of expressions. Texier is still prominent in the contemporary art world, but as a youngstee, he learned to appreciate accessible materials around him, such as drift wood, rusty iron, compass for navigation, etc, then utilize them in creating something more meaningful. In a recent interview, Texier mentioned: “To be an artist, is to invent a magic thought process whose goal is to express a singular vision of the world.” Indeed, Texier was able to create a new agenda with communicate the reflection of the artist’s emotions and feelings to a greater population.