Vue de l’exposition / Installation view Toucher Terre à la Fondation Villa Datris, 2022 – Photo © Bertrand Hugues Vue d’exposition / Installation view Plus haut que les nues – 20e anniversaire du Prix Marcel Duchamp. FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, 22.02.2022 – 30.04.2022. Photo Ludovic Combe Installation view, Children Power, Frac île-de-france – Le Plateau, Paris, 2021 © Martin Argyroglo Installation view, Children Power les réserves, frac île-de-france – Les Réserves Romainville, 2021 © Martin Argyroglo Picasso l’esquimo, 2019. Ink on plaster, 18 1/8 x 4 3/8 x 4 3/8 in. Private collection Sans titre, 2019 ink on plaster, 39 x 9 x 9 cm (15 3/8 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.) Installation view, Argos, Collégiale Saint Martin, Angers, 2018. Photo: Fanny Trichet. Turbo Plus, 2015 clay, seashells, glass, aluminum, plaster 26 x 49 x 37 cm (10 1/4 x 19 1/4 x 14 5/8 in.) Mai, 2017. Opaline, electric system, forex, lamps, 60 1/4 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. Private collection Untilted, 2004. Opaline chandelier Sans titre, 2012 installation with 10 opaline chandeliers dimensions variable. Private collection Sans titre (table de ping pong), 2000 stainless steel rod, ping-pong balls variable dimensions. Installation view Argos, Collégiale Saint Martin, Angers, 2018. Photo: Fanny Trichet. Collection FRAC Limousin Sans titre (table de ping pong), 2000 detail Sans titre (bec verseur), 2013, postcard, metal, 5 7/8 x 4 1/8 in., 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. framed Sans titre, 2014 cardboard box lid, moiré fabric, postcard, oyster shell, 33 x 23,5 x 4 cm (13 x 9 1/4 x 1 5/8 in.). Private collection Sans titre, 2016 cardboard box lid, moiré fabric, postcard, oyster shell, 35 x 26 x 2,5 cm (13 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 1 in.) Untilted, 2012. Oysters, wood, map, 28 3/8 x 49 1/4 x 1 1/8 in. Grande ouverte, 2011 oyster shell, polystyrene, wood, map, diameter : 23 5/8 in. Private collection Sans titre (bec verseur), 2013 postcard, metal, 15 x 10,5 cm (5 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.), 21 x 16,5 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.) framed Sans titre (bec verseur), 2013 postcard, metal, 15 x 10,5 cm (5 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.), 21 x 16,5 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.) framed Sans titre (bec verseur), 2009 postcard, metal, 15 x 10,5 cm (5 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.), 21 x 16,5 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.) framed Untilted (bec verseur), 2011. 5 7/8 x 4 1/8 in., 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. framed Olga, 2011 modeling clay on canvas, 60,5 x 50 x 4 cm (23 7/8 x 19 5/8 x 1 5/8 in.) Sans titre (Céramique), 2009, set of 10 ceramics, dimensions variable. Collection FRAC Ile de France, Le Plateau Installation view, Collector, Tripostal, Lille, 2011-12. Photo: Gautier Deblonde. Untilted, 1999. Colored newspaper, liquid corrector, ballpoint pen, 11 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. Untilted (Molécule de Moustique), 1996. Glass and silicone white blood cells, Le plateau FRAC IDF Installation View, PAS VU PAS PRIS, Le Plateau, FRAC, 2009. Photo: Martin Argyroglo Callas Bey. Installation view De leur temps, Le prix Marcel Duchamp, 10 ans de creation en France, Musée d’Art moderne et
contemporain, Strasbourg/FR, 2010Untilted, 2007. Aluminized steel chimney pipes and halogen lamp. Collection MAC/VAL, Vitry sur Seine, FR Bye, bye, 2006 Helmets, wire-strainers Sans titre, 2004 bike (51 x 29 x 12 in), mirror, venilia. Installation view En Piste! Domaine de Chamarande, FR Sans titre, 2007 glass and silicone, 30 x 31 x 23 cm (11 3/4 x 12 1/4 x 9 in.) Sans titre, 2007 glass and silicone, 64 x 30 x 20 cm (25 1/4 x 11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.) Installation view, Domaine en oeuvres, Chateau de Chamarande / FR, 2020 Sans titre, 2000 glass, silicone, bulb, system electronic, 90 x 100 x 100 cm (35 3/8 x 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.) Trilogie, 1997 glass objects. Private collection lass objects, glass plates and silicone glue. Collection FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine – Méca Sans titre, 1995, Glass objects, glass plates and silicone glue. Collection FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine – Méca Karafator, 1993 Glass and silicone. Collection FRAC Limousin
Biography
Born in 1962 in La Châtre, Richard Fauguet lives and works in Châteauroux. Since his debut at the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux, the artist has proposed a protean work – drawings, collages, rubbings, sculptures – that often works in series or periods guided by the use of a particular material. One recalls the paper silhouettes, burnt sheets, glass installations, or more recently postcards with pouring spouts. Richard Fauguet combines a variety of universes and imaginaries that may seem antagonistic at first sight. The great masters of art history, his so called “buddies”, are often summoned (Picasso, Degas, Giacometti, etc.) and forced to get involved with some figures issued from popular culture and our collective imagination (Mr. Clean or Darth Vader for example). Using simple materials such as tape, clay, empty shells and found objects, Richard Fauguet revisits the so-called classical genres, portraiture and landscapes alike. He thus proposes a renewed aesthetic that blurs the lines and transcends the traditional divide between high and low culture.
His work is part of many Regional Funds for Contemporary Art (FRAC) collections, and French public institutions such as: the National Museum of Modern Art / Donation Collection Florence and Daniel Guerlain – Centre Pompidou, Paris, the National Contemporary Art Fund of Paris, the MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine and les Abattoirs, Toulouse.
In 2020 his work was part of the exhibition ‘Picasso and the Comics’ at the Musée Picasso Paris. Several exhibitions have recently been dedicated to him, including Maison du son et de l’image de Villeurbanne (2022), Argos, Collégiale Saint-Martin, Angers (2018); Bivalve & Monocouche, Art : Concept, Paris (2015); Vivement Demain, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur- Seine (2012); Selon Arrivage, Art : Concept, Paris (2011); Ni vu ni Connu, Frac Limousin, Limoges (2011); Pas vu, pas pris, Frac Ile‑de-France, Paris (2009).
At the gallery
- Bivalve & Monocouche, 2015
- Le cours des choses, 2014
- Selon arrivage, 2011
- Bagna Cauda, 2010
- Cinématique, Esthétique, Politique, Hermétique, 2010
- From Aural Sculpture to Sound by Ink, 2004
- Pas d’fumée, pas d’feu, 2004
- Châtaignes et vin blanc, 2003
- Richard Fauguet, 1997