Philippe Richard[1] (born February 25, 1962) is a French artist, based in Paris, France. He lived New York from 1996 to 1999. He has been very close to some American painters such as Joan Mitchell and Shirley Jaffe. Some of his work resides in the Theodore Art [2] in Brooklyn, New York.
Biography
Richard [3] studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Paris (École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts).
From 1994 to 1996 he did a residency at Straumur Art Commune in Iceland.
From 1994 to 1995 he received a grant « Leonard de Vinci » to go to Iceland.
In 1997 he received a grant from the FIACRE (Fonds National d’Art Contemporain) to do a project in New York.
In 1998 he also did a residency at the International Studio Program, in New York.
Statement
Since a few years ago, Richard’s paintings leave the canvas to benefit the art space and its walls. This work started in 1996 in Iceland when he released 180 bottles into the sea, each containing a different gouache titled « Months, years ». The bottles were combined with a series of 77 paintings on driftwood from the Icelandic beaches. Since then, a third of the gouaches have been found and collected by different people from Norway, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Thanks to this experience he started to rethink his idea about painting and surfaces. Since 1997 he started a long series of "painting steles" and "atmospherics variables", "earth edges" and "lineaments" where parallel works run during the reassessment of paintings.
Philippe Richard considers his paintings as juggling between physical spaces and canvas’ spaces. The exhibition space is no more a receptacle; Philippe Richard starts to build a relationship between art pieces and art spaces so that it becomes an active background. Matrix is the result of all his research, making the paintings and the art spaces one.[4]
Selected exhibitions
Solo
2013
"International Accident", Theodore:Art, Brooklyn NY [5]
"Autre pareil, Musée des Beaux-arts de Dunkerque, France [6]
"Interventions", Savanah College of Art and Design, Lacoste, Vaucluse, France
"Jim Schmidt Contemporary Art", St. Louis, United States
Bibliography
Philippe Richard, Painting outside the Lines, Laumeier Sculpture Park, texte de Kim Humphries, en, 2006, Saint-Louis, 6 pages, ISBN978-0-940337-16-9
Philippe richard, Le bord du monde n'existe pas, La peinture, à la limite, Red District, texte de Karim Gaddhab, fr/en, septembre 1999, Marseille, 24 pages, ISBN2-84502-007-4
Philippe Richard, Miscellaneous: Installations and paintings, europäisches kultur- und informationszentrum in thüringen, Erfurt, 1997, 36 pages
Articles
STL Today: "Laumeier exhibition", Visual Art, text from David Bonetti, October 12, 2006
Art Press: Edition spéciale jeune scène française (Fiac 2001), text from Eric Suchère, October 2001, Supplément
TMM: "Thri Jiuvidarlist i Paris", text from Gunnar Halldorsson, is, June 2001
Contemporary Visual Art: "Peinture, trois regards", Mick Finch, March 2001, Issue 33
Art Press: "Peintures, trois regards", text from Tristan Trémeau, February 2001
Art Press: "Le bord du monde n'existe pas", text from Eric Suchère, June 2000
Art Press: "Couleur, couleurs", text from Eric Suchère, March 1998, nº223
Art in America: "Philippe Richard", text from Eric Suchère, January 1998
Beaux-Arts Magazine: "Exception française à la Villa Medici", text from Tristan Trémeau, 1997
Tribeca: "Philippe Richard", text from Françoise-Aline Blin, April/May 1997
Die neue bildende Kunst: "Die polymorphe malerei", text from Eric Suchère, October/November 1996
Art Press: "Philippe Richard", text from Eric Suchère, December 1995
Kunstforum: " Der Herzog auf dem Kirschen und die Prinzessin aug der Erbste", text from Maribel Königer, November 1995
Beaux-Arts magazine: " Philippe Richard, le fond, la forme et l'illusion", text from Karen Rudolph, October 1995
