Richard Conte, born June 12, 1953 is a Contemporary artist and Art Professor.

Background and Education

Richard Conte studied Plastic Arts and Art History at the French University University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He then completed a Phd dissertation entitled Une Pratique Négative en Peinture, Poïétique de la Fragmentation, de l’Enlevage et de l’Obturation supervised by René Passeron. An Agrégé and a Doctor in Plastic Arts, he began teaching at the École Normale of Douai, l’Essonne and Cergy, and then at the university from 1983 onwards. In the mid-1990s, Richard Conte obtained an accreditation to supervise research. He was subsequently elected Director of the CERAP (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche en Arts Plastiques) by the Scientific Council of the University and has been responsible for coordinating the seminar entitled Interface at the Sorbonne since 1999.

Conte’s career in the 2000s

Richard Conte has been Director of the CERAP since the early 2000s. At about the same period, he was elected member of the Scientific Council of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. As part of his mandate, Richard Conte is also a member of the Council of the Doctoral School for Plastic Arts and Art Sciences at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Latest appointments

• Appointed member of the Commission nationale consultative d’évaluation des enseignants des écoles d’art (national commission about art teachers valuation) of the French Ministry of Culture.
• Member of the research commission of the Délégation aux Arts plastiques (Plastik Art delegation).
• Member of the Board of research and studies at the ENSAD (École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs).
• President of the jury for the promotion of the Professors of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences in Tunisia
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   (2004–2007).
• Co-founder and managing editor of the journal Recherches poïétiques (poïetic researches).
• Founder and managing editor of the journal Plastik.
• Founder and Director of the collection Arts et monde contemporain (Art in the Contemporary world), Publications de la Sorbonne (Sorbonne publishing).
• Coordinator of the project Création et prospective, as part of the 2006-2007 / 2008-2009 projects comprised under the title La création à l'épreuve des risques majeurs (creation proof against major risks).

Solo Exhibitions

• 2009 - Deborah Zafman Art Gallery, Paris.
• 2005-2006 - Pommes Libertines, Potager du roi, grotte du Parc Balbi, Château de Versailles.
• 2005 - Museum Nicéphore Niépce
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  , Chalon-sur-Saône
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  , France.
• 2004 - Performance entitled Bille en tête for the opening of the Festival Chalon-dans-la-rue.
• 2002 - KBS Television Gallery, Pusan, South Korea
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   : Mondial 98 – Museum of Contemporary Art at Pusan, South Korea.
• 2001 - Contemporary Art Space Camille Lambert, city of Juvisy-sur-Orge, France (catalogue) - Performance entitled L’abeille qui fait son miel (Photographed by Yann Toma)
• 2000 - Museum of Contemporary Art at Seoul National University (Korea), (with Jean-Pierre Brigaudiot), edition of an art booklet.
• 1997 - Château de Dampierre, Anzin
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   (North of France), Les Années Rondes (The round years), 1996-1986.
• 1996 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris
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  . Les Autonus (the self nudes).
• 1994 - Museum of Bourges
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  , France (Book) – Foundation of Roger Van Rogger, Bandol
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• 1993 - University of Pau, France.
• 1992 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris (Catalogue) – Art et essai, Art Gallery, Rennes
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  , France.
• 1989 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris (Catalogue).
• 1988 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris (Catalogue) – University of Toulouse
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   le Mirail.
• 1986 - Museum Gauguin, Papeete
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   (Tahiti
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  ) – Eros Errance Art Gallery, Rouen
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  , France.
• 1985 - Cultural Center Jacques Brel
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  , Thionville
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  , France.
• 1982 - Pierre Lescot Art Gallery, Paris (booklet).
• 1980 - Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Nanterre, France (booklet).

Group Exhibitions

• 2010 May - La part du corps (the body piece), Kheïreddine Palace, Tunis.
• 2010 February - Laboratoria, exhibition Art/Science, Moscow
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• 2007 - Nuits Blanches (October 6), Paris.
• 2005 May - L’art, un cas d’école (Art, a textbook case), Museum of Education at Santiago]], [[Chile]] - Salon de Bagneux (Catalogue) - Découvertes 91, N. Ferry Art Gallery – [[Grand Palais]], Paris - Salon de Mars, Michel Cachou Art Gallery, Paris –Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris - International Contemporary Art Symposium of Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec - MAC 2000, nov. 91, Grand Palais, Paris (Catalogue).
• 1990 - Salon de Montrouge - Art et Téléphone, Espace Lamartine, Paris (Catalogue) - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris - Espace Zig Zag, Rennes, France (Catalogue).
• 1988 - Yan Lung Art Gallery - Lascaux Aller-retour, Périgueux, France (Catalogue) - Jacqueline Moussion Art Gallery, Carnac – Symposium on Poietics, Vinneuf (Yonne, France) - Espace Cardin, Paris.
• 1987 - Salon de Mai, Grand Palais, Paris (Catalogue) –City Hall of Cachan – [[Georges Brassens]] hall, Juvisy - Ecomuseum, Fresnes, France.
• 1985 - Pierre Lescot Art Gallery, Paris - Graffitis de Peintres au Téléphone (Graffities of painters on the phone) (Catalogue) –National Library, Paris - Entrepôt Lainé, [[Bordeaux]], France – Cultural center of Thionville, Autour de Jean Hélion.
• 1984 - Salon de Montrouge (Catalogue) – Novembre à Vitry (November in Vitry), France.
• 1983 - Novembre à Vitry.
• Conte’s works of art can be found in various public and private collections in France, [[Germany]], [[England]], [[Canada]], [[South Korea]], [[Denmark]], [[Tunisia]] and in the [[United States]].

Conte as exhibition curator

• October–November 2007 - Proliférer (Prolifering), Villa Savoye, Poissy, France.
• October 2005 - Le bout du monde (the ends of the earth), Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
• September 2004 - Laborinthe, Fondation Avicenne, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.

Latest books

• Le Dessin Hors Papier (the drawing/design out of paper), Ed., introduction and article. Collective work, Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris, (ISBN 978-2-85944-612-3), 2009 (254 p.).
• Du Sacré dans l'Art Actuel (some sacred in current art), (with [[Marion Laval‐Jeantet]]), Paris, Ed. Klincksieck, 2008 (172 p.).
• Inimages, with René Passeron et [[Jean Lancri]], Ed. Klincksieck, Paris, pp. 54 to 78. Cruautés pures (pure cruelty), sur quelques inimages de René Passeron, (EAN 9782252036716), 2008.
• Pommes Libertines, with [[Emmanuel Pierrat]], Ed. Bernard Pascuito, Paris, (ISBN 978-2-35085-044-32008), 2008.
• Qu’est-ce que l’Art Domestique ? (what is domestic art ?), Ed. and introduction, Publications de la Sorbonne, (ISBN 2-85944-553-6) - (ISBN 13 9782859445539), 2004 (184 p).
• L'Art Contemporain au Risque du Clonage (Contemporary Art to cloning risk), Publications de la Sorbonne, Ed. Broché, (ISBN 2-85944-469-6), 2002 (243p.).
• Le Mode Mineur de la Création, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Poietics, (with J. C. Le Gouic) Ed. Aléas, [[Lyon]], 1996 (354 p.).
• L’Usine dans l’Espace Francilien, Publications de la Sorbonne, (with [[Martine Tabeaud]]), 2001.
• A vos marques ! Sport, Art et Architecture, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2001 (with Martine Tabeaud), (244 p.).
• En Attendant que Ca Sèche (waiting that it dries), journal Extime 1989-1993, Ed. Musées du Berry. 1994.

Articles

• 1985
  • L'ordre du graffiti (the graffiti sequence), n° 10 of the journal Tribu, Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail (editor of the issue).
  • Le mot-valise (the grip-word)(editorial) - L'appel du rythme - Interview with [[Alfred Tomatis]].
• 1991
  • Autocensure et poïétique (autocensorship and poietic), Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Poietic. Paris, Ed. Poïésis, 1991.
  • Art et téléphone, Les Lettres Françaises ([[French Letters]]), June.
• 1992
  • [[Ellsworth Kelly]] : les années cruciales (crucial years), Les Lettres françaises, May.
  • [[Charles-Henri Monvert]], arpenteur de l'infime (surveyors of the lowly), Les Lettres françaises, July.
  • Picasso: le désir attrapé par la lumière (desire caught by light), Protée, Journal of the University of Québec at Chicoutimi.
  • L'esthétique de Luigi Pareyson, Les Lettres françaises, June.
  • La Poïétique de Paul Valéry, Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Poietics. Paris / Tunis, Ed. Arcantère.
  • Le Règne imaginal, text for the Revue parlée (talked revue), October 12, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Reproduced in : Gérard Durozoi, Jean-Clarence Lambert ou Le regard des mots, Paris, Cercle d’Art, 1994.
• 1993
  • Jean Hélion, Chronique d'un Voyant (chronicle of a looker), Les Lettres françaises, May.
  • Toros y toreros (About Picasso), Les Lettres françaises, June.
  • Tous les matins (all mornings) de Jean Pons, Catalogue Aimé Césaire / Jean Pons, La Galerie, French Cultural Center, Oslo.
  • Hélion, les tableaux et les jours (paintings and days), Traverse n°7, Centre Pompidou, Paris, winter.- L'artiste et le philosophe.
  • Le peintre et son préfacier (the painter and his forworder), Traverse, Paris, Centre Pompidou, July 1993.
  • Pour un journal extime, Proceedings of the Université d'été, September 1992, Aix-en-Provence, in Les Arts Plastiques à l'Université, published by Université de Provence, 1993.
  • La théorie de l'os à moëlle (bone marrow theory), Media Scope, CNDP, December.
  • Cercle et imagination matérielle dans une pratique picturale, Journal EspaceTemps 55/56.
• 1995
  • Faire et défaire le paysage (do and undo the landscape), Recherches poïétiques N°2, PUV / SIP.
  • Le cercle pour cadre in Cadres & Marges, Fourth Symposium of the CICADA, Pau University Press.
  • Interview with Anne Cartier-Bresson on the restoration of the photographic patrimony. Recherches Poïétiques n°3, Dec.
• 1996
  • Introduction to the Third International Symposium on Poietics: Le Mode Mineur de la Création, Université de Provence.
  • La Restauration des Photographies, Entretien avec Anne Cartier-Bresson, Recherches poïétiques N° 3, PUV / SIP.
• 1997
  • La poïétique de Paul Valéry, in Recherches Poïétiques N°5 (Ed. of the issue entitled: Valéry, l’Artiste en Philosophe including Paul Valéry’s unpublished lessons at the Collège de France (lessons 2 to 16)).
  • Les feuillets de l’Autonu, journal de bord de l’été 95, ibid.
  • Recherches Poïétiques N°6, Ed. of the issue entitled 1997: le Surréalisme Au Service De La Création (SASDLC) including Wolfgang Paalen, Zdenek Lorenc and Claude Cahun’s unpublished works. Conte’s articles included in the same issue -Editorial. –‘Du surréalisme révolutionnaire à Cobra,’ interview with René Passeron and Jean-Clarence Lambert, pp. 70–82. – ‘Les phrases du réveil/Les gravures de l'avant-veille,’ with Michel Gouéry.
• 1998
  • Recherches Poïétiques N°7, Ed. of the issue entitled Le regard créateur - Editorial La femme vigile.
  • Qu'est-ce qu'une pratique (what is a practice ?), in the Proceedings of the Symposium on Plastic Arts at the university of Rennes 2 (Ed. Jacques Sato).
  • Chronique d'une Annonciation différée, In L'Annonciation de la Renaissance à nos jours, CD ROM PC/MAC, RMN & Univ. Paris I, D. Arasse, P. Fresnault.
• 1999
  • Recherches Poïétiques N°8. Conte’s articles included in this issue: Peindre devant l'écran (first part) pp. 36–42.- Peindre devant l'écran (second part) Journal du Mondial de football 98, pp. 140–148. - À couteaux tirés, pp. 164–170.
  • Recherche et création in Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Aesthetics, L'esthétique comme philosophie, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1998, Vol. 2, pp. 303–317.
  • Les Arts Plastiques dans l'Enseignement Supérieur, Journal Philosophie et politique N°10, PUF, nov. 99, pp. 119–131.
• 2000
  • Recherches Poïétiques N°9. Ed. of the issue entitled L'Animal Vivant dans l'Art Contemporain; includes some of Friedrich Schlegel and Konrad Fiedler’s unpublished works (in French language).
  • Le Monogramme du Peintre, in Création et critique, texts collected and introduced by Rachida Triki, ATEP, University Press of Tunis, pp. 81–91.
  • Les Dames de Nage, in Une œuvre de Picasso, (collective work), Ed. Muntaner, col. Iconotexte, Aix-en-Provence, March 2000. pp. 59–70.
• 2001
  • Created the journal [Plastik] for the CERAP, Publications de la Sorbonne. N°1, Issue : L’Expérience Intérieure, Arts appliqués / Arts plastiques.
  • L’Hypermnésie Panoramique, Proceedings of the Symposium L’être au monde, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec.
  • La Déambulation orientée objets, Proceedings of the Société tunisienne d’Esthétique et de Poïétique, ATEP, Hammamet, Tunisia.
  • L’Escamoteur de Peinture, Proceedings of the symposium ‘Art & théâtre,’ Université de Valenciennes.
• 2002
  • [Plastik] n°2, journal of the CERAP, Publications de la Sorbonne. Issue : Facteurs de trouble, Performances / Arts plastiques.
• 2005
  • Les Mémoires du Dehors (memories of outside), in Espace et Mémoire, Tunisian Association for Aesthetics and Poietics, Proceedings of the 2d Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics, Maghreb Diffusion, Tunis.
• 2007
  • Bille en tête, Journal Les Carnets du Paysage n°13 & 14, Actes Sud, Arles, pp. 334–343.
  • Le bain des pommes libertines, une parodie d’orientalité, in Orient / Occident, les Arts dans le Prisme Exogène, Proceedings of the 10th Symposium of the ATEP, Ed. Université de Tunis, pp. 26–35.
  • L’Orient des Pommes (apples east), Proceedings of the 10th Symposium of the ATEP, Ed. Université de Tunis, pp. 26–35.
• 2009 - Dans l’atelier de Jean-Claude, Hommage à Jean-Claude Le Gouic, texts collected by Michel Guérin, University Press of Provence, Aix-en-Provence.
• 2010 - L’art a-t-il tous les droits ? (does art have rights?), in L’art et le droit, Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris.
  • Le festin des pommes libertines (the spread of libertine apples), Proceedings of the Symposium Le Festin des Arts, Supervised by Amos Fercombé, université d’Arras, 2010.
• 2011 - Ah ! Dieu que la terre est jolie (Oh! God ! How beautiful is hearth), Proceedings of the Symposium held at Florence, entitled Paysage, territoire et représentation, Champ Valon, Paris. (to be published).

Journals edited by Richard Conte

• Journal Plastik Arts/Sciences (available on line) 4 issues published between 2001and 2004. Publications de la Sorbonne.
• Recherches poïétiques, 9 issues published between 1994 and 2000. University Press of Valenciennes / International Society for Poietics.

Latest Symposia and Conferences

• 2010 : 9 to 11 May, Poïétique de la bande-annonce, in Cinéma et Philosophie, symposium hosted by the university of [[Oran]], [[Algeria]], and coordinated by [[Benmeziane Bencherki]].
• 2009 :
  • 5–6 December : L’imprévisible, Le bleu du ciel et Les caprices de l’aubergine, in L’imprévisible, Symposium on Aesthetics hosted by the CEREAP, at the IUFM of Martinique and coordinated by Dominique Berthet.
  • 19 to 23 November : Autonomie de l’art, l’artiste a-t-il tous les droits ? in Philosopher aux portes du désert : L’idée d'autonomie et ses enjeux ontologiques, critiques et politiques, Tozeur
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     (Tunisia), Institut Supérieur des Etudes Appliquées en Humanités de Tozeur (ISEAHT). Research unit "Lumières et Modernité" (03/UR/02-07). Research unit in philosophy «PHILAB» (University of Tunis). UNESCO Chair in Philosophy at the University of Tunis. The CERPHI (UMR 5037, ENS-LSH of Lyon, France). For the World Philosophy Day. TOZEUR, (Tunisia).
  • 8 to 10 June : Globalisation et mondialité à travers la photographie in Création, Représentation et pratique des arts en Méditerranée (redécouvertes et frayages contemporains), 2d session, La ville et l’espace. University of Oran (Algéria), Department of Social Sciences. Research unit Philosophie et son histoire. Network of researchers from the AUF Diversité des Expressions Culturelles et Artistiques, et Mondialisations.
  • 20 April to 1 May : Ah Dieu que la terre est jolie ! in Paysage européen & Mondialisation - Lettres, arts et sciences humaines - Florence, Villa Finally, coordinated by Aline Bergé, (Paris 3) Michel Collot (Paris 3) and Jean Mottet. (paris 1)
  • 15–17 March : at Hammamet
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    , L’Instance Technologique, Ferment ou Obstacle pour la création, (closing conference), 12th International Symposium of the ATEP (Tunisian Association of Aesthetics and Poietics): Dimension esthétique, Art et Multimédia, supervised by Rachida Triki
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    (Tunis 1).
  • 13–15 March : La Création, le Profane et le Sacré in Le Sacré et le Profane : Manifestations et Enjeux dans l’Expression Artistique Contemporaine, Institute of Fine Arts of Sousse (ISBAS Sousse), Tunisia.
• 2008
  • 11–13 December : Le festin des pommes libertines in Les Festins et les Arts, Staterooms of Guînes, Arras, for the international symposium organized by the university of Artois and coordinated by Amos Fercombé (Textes et culture EA 4028).
  • 7–9 November : Un Artiste Contemporain : Mounir FATMI in L’Art Contemporain : Formes, Références Conceptuelles, Limites... , African Queen Hotel, Hammamet, Tunisia, coordinated by Samir Triki, the ISBAT, Tunis and the CERAP, Paris 1.
• 2007
  • 3–5 December : L’Ipodologie Créatrice, in French Philosophy and Contemporary Art, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, United States. (invited by Richard Shusterman).
  • 9–11 November : Les Formes Contemporaines de l’Engagement Artistique, at the International Symposium hosted by the University of Gabès, Tunisia, and entitled Art, environnement et développement durable, coordinated by Med Mohsen Zerai.
  • 18–20 March : Pommes libertines ; une parodie d’orientalité in Orient / occident : les arts dans le prisme exogène, 10th symposium of the ATEP, coordinated by Rachida Triki and hosted by the University of Tunis 1, Hammamet.

External links

• Richard Conte on the CERAP website
• Qu’est-ce qu’une pratique ? Article by Richard Conte put online by Aalborg University (Denmark).