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Fabrice Hyber: "An artist must be cheeky!"

1/22/2021, 3:31:40 PM


INTERVIEW - The warmest of French artists is this inventive and collaborative Vendéen who entered the Académie des beaux-arts in 2018. Meeting with a strong theme.

Fabrice Hyber is happy when he is in Vendée, the land where he was born in 1961. Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1997, this eternally positive plastic artist took advantage of his dual training to invent a utopian world and creative that resembles him.

He is the green man of art, like his fountain sculpture,

Homme de Bessines

, 1991-1997, which is available from the Center Pompidou to the Maeght Foundation.

LE FIGARO.

- Artist or scientist?

Fabrice HYBER.

- Both!

I illustrate a bibliophile book on the theorems of the Nancy mathematician Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), on special relativity, topologies, linearization.

He invented so much… He knew how to create doubt from science.

I love this researcher who influenced me a lot when I was a student.

This so important thinker was not relayed to France, but to the United States with Einstein and to Russia.

The theorems he invented at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century were only recently demonstrated.

I work on him with

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