Richard Texier (b. 1955, Niort) describes himself with disarming simplicity: “I am a painter, a sculptor, or at least someone very close to the visual arts.” Yet his practice extends far beyond any single definition, moving fluidly between sculpture and painting, each medium sustaining and inspiring the other.

Conceived within the wider constellation of Tales of Pantheism, this work reveals the full arc of Texier’s universe, uniting sculpture and painting within a single, expansive vision. Painting complements sculpture as a meditative and exploratory counterpart, offering a space where intuition, matter, and imagination continuously inform one another.

Guided by Elastogenesis, Texier’s manifesto of creative elasticity, this principle flows like an unseen force through both matter and imagination. It is, above all, an elasticity of the mind, opening the way to infinite possibilities. For the artist, Elastogenesis operates as a molding of dreams: Tanguy’s crystalline landscapes or Dalí’s melting watches intuitively embody this force. Less a formal doctrine than a mental and artistic attitude, it is an openness to possibility and a means of structuring and expanding reality.

In Texier’s paintings, the viewer is never confronted with pure abstraction. Instead, they encounter presences that resist naming or rational analysis, inviting a state of complete mental openness alongside the artist. Each painting becomes both meditation and exploration, attuned to the invisible energies that animate creation.