Richard Conte (born June 12, 1953) is a contemporary artist and art professor.
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Background and education
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, 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.
Career
Since 2012, Conte is the director of ACTE Institute a research Mixt Unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne.
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, 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 (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).
Works
Solo exhibitions
1980 - Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Nanterre, France (booklet)
1982 - Pierre Lescot Art Gallery, Paris (booklet)
1985 - Cultural Center Jacques Brel, Thionville, France
1986 - Museum Gauguin, Papeete (Tahiti) – Eros Errance Art Gallery, Rouen, France
1988 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris (Catalogue) – University of Toulouse le Mirail
1989 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris (Catalogue)
1992 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris (Catalogue) – Art et essai, Art Gallery, Rennes, France
1993 - University of Pau, France
1994 - Museum of Bourges, France (Book) – Foundation of Roger Van Rogger, Bandol
1996 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris. Les Autonus (the self nudes)
1997 - Château de Dampierre, Anzin (North of France), Les Années Rondes (The round years), 1996–1986
2000 - Museum of Contemporary Art at Seoul National University (Korea), (with Jean-Pierre Brigaudiot), edition of an art booklet
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)
2002 - KBS Television Gallery, Busan, South Korea: Mondial 98 – Museum of Contemporary Art at Busan, South Korea
Group exhibitions
1998 June–July Catalogue - Conte produced 64 paintings during the 64 games of the FIFA World Cup, each of them being strictly produced within the time of the corresponding game.
2005 January–May - L'art, Un Cas d'Ecole, Museum of Education for the department, Saint-Ouen l'Aumône. Light installation entitled Gobostensibles, in collaboration with François Salis. Catalogue, text written by Romane Boyard. Nicole Ferry Art Gallery (Paris).
Conte as exhibition curator
September 2004 – Laborinthe, Fondation Avicenne, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
October 2005 – Le bout du monde (the ends of the earth), Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
October–November 2007 – Proliférer (Prolifering), Villa Savoye, Poissy, France.