Samuel Richardot

Born in 1982 in Aurillac (France), he lives in Paris.

“Samuel Richardot's pictures deal with the beginning of painting. What is there at the beginning? What is already there, the world, here nature—sensations and feelings—, history (of painting), too, indelible, and the pictorial form, canvas drawn tight on stretchers. So reality and its double, its screen (never empty). Samuel Richardot's painting starts in front of the twofold landscape of nature and painting, with sensations (chromatic, olfactory, acoustic) as well as with memory, and imagination (of dreams, unexpected as it happens), and with the assumed whiteness of the canvas. What grabs you in front of these pictures is their ease, the clarity of their polyphony. [...] In their exact ambivalence, Samuel Richardot's paintings are thoroughly imbued with a dawn-like freshness.” (Christian Bernard, March 2007). 

A few words about your artistic approach?

-Adjusting within the perimeter of a picture a set of elements based on a collection of images, forms, and objects resulting from diverse praxes, at once internal and dependent on the painting; also stemming from sensory references (touch, smell, and hearing).
-Extracting the leftovers from an organic and mineral “nature” where matter is expressed within elementary principles.
-Laying out a set of enigmas.
-Creating a gathering of mongrel creatures.
-Drawing up plans for an architecture with many different readings.
-Restoring, by recycling them, the different parts of an obsolete piece of machinery.
A set of identical-format pictures will be on view.