Richard Texier Inventor of the Elastochain
Since 2011, through paintings, sculptures and installations, Richard Texier has explored his artistic intuition and reflection which he has named Elastogenesis.
In 2018, he published his Elastogenesis Manifesto and began work on the first art work integrated and supported by the Blockchain under the name of the Elastochain.
Richard Texier was born in France in 1955. He has spent much of his career installing and working in Nomadic Workshops across the world. Today he lives and works in Paris . His ecletic works are present in numerous public and private collections in France and around the world. Personal exhibitions have been held in many prestigious museums and institutions including the Marine museum and Luxembourg museum in Paris, the Botanical museum of Brussels, the Culture museum of Moscow, and the museum of Fine Art in Shanghai.
Élastozen, 2018
Élastosoul, 2016
Ses sculptures monumentales sont visibles dans de nombreuses villes notamment à Paris devant la gare du nord, à Shanghai,sur Huaihuai Zhonglu , à Duxberry aux Etats Unis …
Il publie trois livres chez Gallimard, collection blanche, Nager, Le grand M et Zao.
Ses recherches plastiques actuelles portent sur l’élastogénèse, élasticité de l’imaginaire, dont il publie le Manifeste chez Fata Morgana.
Elastozen, 2018
Elastoshell, II, 2017
Elastogenesis, theory of flexibility and fluidity by Richard Texier
Elastogenesis is a theory of flexibility and fluidity invented by Richard Texier in 2011. Since then, the artist has created multiple art works in the form of sculptures, paintings and computer generated images with the aim of embodying the concept of Elastogenesis and exploring it's visual power. The nature of this force, as well as it's pertinance in artistic and scientific disiplines is described in his Elastogenesis Manifesto published in the spring of 2018 by Editions Fata Morgana (ISBN 978-2-37792-030-3).