Les Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris is organising a masterclass with artist Fabrice Hyber in conversation with Pascal Rousseau, Professor of Contemporary Art History at Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne University.
Since his debut in the 1980s, and then becoming one of the youngest winners of the Lion d'Or at the Venice Biennale in 1997, Fabrice Hyber has enjoyed growing attention on the international scene. He has exhibited in many prestigious institutional venues in France and abroad. In 2018, the artist was elected a member of Académie des Beaux-Arts.
The artistic activity and thinking of Fabrice Hyber, who defines himself as a quantum artist, are constantly permeated by the notions of mutation and transformation.
With a background in science before entering École des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, the artist conceives his work in the form of a gigantic rhizome that develops on the principle of echoes. Starting invariably from the practice of drawing and painting, he explores all modes of expression and constantly diffuses his work from one medium to another: "The materiality of the work is irrelevant; what matters is its ability to trigger behaviours."
Professor of contemporary art history at Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne University, specialist in historical avant-garde movements and the beginnings of abstraction, Pascal Rousseau has curated several exhibitions, including "Robert Delaunay. From Impressionism to Abstraction, 1906-1914 " at Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1999; "The Origins of Abstraction 1800-1914" at Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2003-2004; and "Cosa mentale. Art and Telepathy in the 20th Century" at Centre Pompidou, Metz, 2015-2016.
Photo credits : © Fabrice Hyber / © Beaux-Arts de Paris
