Evariste Richer

Born in 1969 in Montpellier, lives and works in Paris, France.
He is represented by Meessen De Clercq Gallery, Brussels.

Nominated for the Marchel Duchamp Prize (2014), he exhibited at Centre Pompidou (2011), the Palais de Tokyo and the Grand Palais (2013), MUDAM Luxembourg (2015), MUCEM in Marseille (2018) and at the Louvre Museum Lens (2021).

Evariste Richer is the author of a poetic work who presents himself as an exploration of reality and strives to understand the universe and mechanisms that have generated and continue to enliven it. By seizing the tools of science and culture such as meteorology, teleology, astronomy, physics, it sets up devices that help provide a new reading grid without stalemate on an intrinsic aesthetic dimension of which The aim is to reconcile the individual with the universal. The minimalist and conceptual aesthetic that governs the creations of The artist disturbed by his power of suggestion and convocation and built around the spectator a narrative that questions our systems of thinking and shaking our understanding of the world.
(source: Untilthen Gallery)