Labor Robert
Labor Robert
le Tampon, REUNION FRANCE, France
About Labor Robert
My LABOR ARTISTE Labor Robert (LABOR) was born in Sainte Clotilde a small village in the North of the Reunion Island ... Self-taught painter since the age of 14 years. After a training in Drawing and Plasma Arts at the Claude Bernard Institute in Paris, he returned to the Reunion where he became a certified teacher and then Aggregate and an artist enjoying a good reputation: "I taught the day and I painted the night, "he says in front of the works produced at that time. The Ministry of Culture selects him for the creation of artwork for the Lycée Roland Garros Tampon and LABOR realizes the Dolmen, a monumental sculpture that creates a event in the years1978 / 79 He exhibits outside the island in cities such as Paris, Avignon, Geneva, Milan, New York in 2015 and recently in St Pierre in the south of the island. The pictorial approach of Labor Robert( LABOR) proceeds, at istar of a whole section of contemporary creation, of a constant questioning of the History of the Art. He revisits and appropriates influences and artistic movements (and creates others, The part-Over ... a reaction after the wild attack of the twin towers of NYC) he revisits the artistic movements questioning them of a point of view that wants to be plural. He maintains, through his painting, a dialogical relationship with the great modernist avant-garde and contemporary currents. Against isolation and alienation, the work of LABOR proposes a relationship between men and history and the landscape, time and space. ….Mélange, Richesse, Liberté,Improvisations,Refus de se cantonner dans unStyle mais les utilisant tous... une seule exigence : La Vérité…. CITATION of LABOR “Peindre c’est la joie d’être vivant et rentrer en ce Mystère de l’Esprit. WORKS are already in COLLECTIONS .... Public and private ..... LABOR Artist Me, I open doors of the past, the present and the future ... respectful of the past, active in the present moment, looking to the future ..A future which already no longer belongs to me ... I like to put myself in default, in abyss, on the adventure of the most unforeseen attempts, to wander in the evolution of the thought (of the creative thought) in the time and the space, an investigation in this disorder ( Entropy) of History and men for the light to emerge, a little spark that straight handle up me on instantly in this fugitive feeling of revelation that seduces me, and interests us and gives us the feeling of really existing ... Here is my painting That is my WAY Far from all trend, from all modes and consensus, me ,creole coming from my ancestors of adventurers who thrived to the conquest of the oceans to discover the islands and mingle with the miscegenation of the world... here is my way ...the journey of my genes and my DNA I have not yet found my port, my home port, free like the trade wind that plays with our mountains and our coast ... Tomorrow will never be like yesterday ... But my soul says me... the trace, the wake of my boat brings with it the krill of the deep seas http://contenu-art.eu/thought.htm
Education:
1)Elementary School STE Clotilde Reunion
2) Secondary School Lycee leconte de Lisle St Denis Reunion
3)University Montpellier Mathématics (2 years)
4)Hight ART School Claude Bernard PARIS ...5 years of Studies : Diplôme de Dessin et Arts Plastiques
Graduated as ART Professor 1970/
As artist : Influences of ANDRE LOTH Writing and MALRAUX and FOCILLON
Events:
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in French and in English
Why I became an artist?
I am in La Reunion Island
phone +2620692416465
To see myFormation il will be interesting to read my publication in Linkedin.com
https://fr.linkedin.com/in/laborrobert
Today, July 5, 2017, I just discovered that an article about me was written in Wikimonde, in which I discovered a big mistake (History and appreciation) ... that I must correct, ... certainly due to a lack of Knowledge of this period 1960/70: https://plus.wikimonde.com/wiki/Labor_Robert
I read the first sentence of the text: "After a bachelor's degree in elementary mathematics, he ... (speaking of me, Labor robert) ... is admitted on a post-baccalaureate course at the Claude Bernard high school in Paris) where he obtains a" Drawing and the visual arts "(section" drawing "disappeared) which only opens up to teaching"
... ..
Here is my rectification (impossible to rectify on the text of WIKIMONDE):
I would like to point out that I was NOT admitted on a post-baccalaureate competition as it is written ... .because at this time I was already working to make a living ... I prepared by correspondence my diploma ... indeed in 1960 I was already a painter appreciated in my entourage and I exposed in the gallery AZUR in Montpellier ... and this familiar practice of drawing and painting made it easier my adaptation and my preparation to the requirements of the 'school…
The preparation for the Professorship of the Lycée Claude Bernard, a school well known at the time for its exigency and perhaps its elitism, was at that time the only great school preparing the teachers of Plastic Arts, Professors who taught everywhere In France, ... not only in high schools and colleges, but also in schools where drawing was important in the general education of pupils or students ... schools renowned as for example the soldiers of St Cyr ... .ST-CYR , Who had at that time a drawing of Drawing after nature, which often separated the students in the competitions ...
The Universities departments Arts as today did not exist yet ... and the first professors of the Universities -Arts newly created, were the same professors Claude Bernard ... were graduated like me of the Diploma of Drawing and plastic arts Claude Bernard
Very ancient times whose history one must know
Other words that shocked me too: This sentence "that formation opens only on the teaching" ... a restriction suggesting that Claude Bernard's pupils were not prepared for an artist career ... What I refute Strongly: To pretend that it is totally unaware of the quality of teaching to Claude Bernard ... Teaching as practical as intellectual ... in 1960 I was already a painter and I can say that I learned a lot from this training ... Particular, would be that, of the reading of works of art, painting as much as sculpture
We had the choice: .while practicing an exciting teaching, the question is whether we had anything to say in our own creations ... What continues to excite me today in ART after 60 years of work
Thank you for reading ... Rectification thank you for reading my publication: My diplomas
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mes-dipl%C3%B4mes-labor-robert
Exhibitions:
1960 First exhibition in Montpellier (first personal exhibition) Galerie AZUR
1972 Opening of the ACTUEL gallery in St Pierre Réunion.... Painter and Manager of the Gallery ( ACTUEL)... .Installations, Performances, Exhibitions series
1970/1979 Exhibitions... Le Cadre Noir Gallery 1970/1979 St Denis Reinion Island
Illustration of the Book “Quartier trois Lettres “ from Axel Gauvin quoted in Internet by 'BNF ( Bibliothèque Nationaler de France) PARIS)
1978 Awards «We are all poets» (with the students of the Ecole Militaire du Tampon.... Place Beaubourg ...PARIS
1979 Exhibition Léon Dierx MUSEUM St Denis la Reunion Island
Sculpture monumentale: The DOLMEN "of the Lycée Roland Garros du Tampon (Commission of the Ministry of Culture ...Paris)
1980 international Exhibition Creil... awards (bronze medal for "the burden" figurative painting, oil on canvas
80’sYears Gallery Tsaho St Pierre (Reunion)...
1991 my Encounter With Dominique BOZO the creator of the Picasso Museum PARIS ... Very important for me
1992 exhibition Le Cadre Noir Gallery St Denis (Reunion Island )... Permanent Artist
1990/92 Espace 51 Gallery and Alternat Gallery PARIS ( le marais).... Permanent Artist
1996 exhibition ... Departmental Office of Culture Gallery St Denis (Reunion)
1996 Space Beaudemoulin Gallery ... le Tampon La Reunion Island
1998 Exhibition ....About Women … (Galerie le petit Louvre)… AVIGNON
2000 expo Installation Chapelle ST Marcellin …History and Variations... St Remy de Provence … LIEUX GARANCE Gallery
2001 exhibition ... Above Clouds... ENTREE EN MATTIERES Gallery AVIGNON
2002 exhibition Château de Portes (Castle of Portes …in Cévennes with ART-POINT France ..Curator
2003 Exhibition EUROP'ART. Art Fair ..... Geneva (Switzerland)
2003 Exhition BIENNALE of FLORENCE Art fair (Italy) ...curator Arte-Studio
Works in custody (in storage ) in Rome (Zen paintings “ la Chair de l’abricot” )...with Alberto Ambrouoso
2004-2005 Permanent Artist Gallery.... ENTREE EN MATIERES Gallery... Rue des teinturiers ( Teinturiers Street) ;;; AVIGNON
2005 Initiation of the Concept: The PART-OVER (end of 2005)
2005 Exhibition EUROP'ART GENEVE 2007.Art fair
2009 Artbygeneve (Switzerland) Geneva Art fair ... VOLCANOES series
2012 in July... Exhibition CRR Region.... Music Conservatory... St Pierre La Reunion Island .. Metis ART Installation
2012 Exhibition in september ... Ode to Pierrefonds... St Pierre ... Reunion Island ... Mediathèque Gallery
2013 Exhibition Milan .... ITALY ... Garage Milano Gallery ... Ruotando... curator Vanna Mazzei
2014 May Exhibition HongKong Art fair ... Curator "Studio 26 Gallery, New York"
2014 Asian Contemporary Art fair ..Art Show ... Hong Kong... curator studio 26 Gallery
2014 Miami Red Dot,Art fair December 2-7, curator Studio Gallery 26 NewYork
2014 SELECT NYC Art Fair..................curator Gallery Studio 26 NewYork
2015 Solo Exhibition ... MYTHS and Mental Geometry..... Studio 26 Gallery East village ...Manhattan NewYork 10009
2016-2017 Auctionata BERLIN ....and Historia Auctions BERLIN
2014-2016 artslant.com and awards https://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/57475-labor-robert?tab=AWARDS
2017 Saatchiart Sales...