Fabrice Hyber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vecPsx2bSjM

French artist Fabrice Hyber was a guest lecturer at Talk Series on October 3rd at Reykjavík Art Museum - Hafnarhús. Here is a link to the lecture.

It is extremely gratifying to be able to welcome Fabrice Hyber him in Iceland and to have the opportunity to introduce him and his unique works.

THE SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION

About the subject of the lecture, Fabrice Hyber says:

The material part of the work is not all that important, but the ability of the work to influence our behavior. From the beginning I have tried to search for the origin and theory of my own art: every detail matters!

Every movement activates our thinking and I was sure that I would be able to understand my life from the valley in which I grew up. So I decided a few years ago to share all the emotions I experience in the valley with the public. This is a place where I have studied and experimented, just like in painting, but my paintings are like school blackboards. I draw all my questions and all possible answers.

Like a researcher, I outline and explain with examples. When I'm working at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, I do research through concept-based images. I love making connections between different ecosystems.

In my lecture in Talk Series, I'm going to show you some pictures and talk about my working methods.

THE GUEST

Fabrice Hyber was born in 1961 in Luçon in the Vendée region of France. He studied mathematics and physics before studying art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Nantes, from which he graduated in 1985. Fabrice Hyber sees his oeuvre as one gigantic rhizome, where each piece is part of a larger overall system. He uses drawings, paintings, installations and videos in works that explore the relationship between humans and the outside world in an unbridled conversation between art and science and has, among other things, collaborated with research institutions and scientists in the fields of biotechnology, virology and microbiology. In recent years, he has spent part of his time studying ecosystems by planting trees on his parents' land in the valley where he grew up. At the beginning of his career, his interest was focused on private companies, and many of his works were done in collaboration with such companies, but in order to maintain his independence in production and distribution, he founded his own company under the name Unlimited Liability. Among other things, the company produces non-usable parts by Hyber, so-called POF parts, but POF is an abbreviation for prototype d'object en fonctionnement or prototypes of functional parts.

Fabrice Hyber was awarded the Golden Lion in Venice in 1997 and has been a member of the French Academy since 2018. He was nominated Forest Ambassador of the Forestry Institute of France in 2021 and has chaired the board of the French Center for Fine Arts (CNAP) since 2022.

Talk Series is a joint project of the Icelandic Art Center, the Reykjavík Art Museum and the Iceland Academy of the Arts