Fabrice Hybert

[1] Since 1986, he presents personal exhibitions in Montreal, Limoges, Poitiers, Strasbourg, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, Zurich, Bruges, Sète or Guadalajara.

In 2018, Fabrice Hyber delivered the painted decoration for the glass roof of the Parisian palace Lutetia, he also produced, for Beaupassage, "Les Deux Chênes" from the double molding of a three-hundred-years-old tree from its Vendée valley.

[6] On March 7, 2022, Fabrice Hyber was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Center National des Arts Plastiques (France) by order of the Minister of Culture.

[7] A prolific artist, Fabrice Hyber gradually builds a production made up of paintings, charcoal drawings, collages, videos, etc.

He abjures the coherent, instantly understandable, text and the consistent oeuvre in favour of a proliferation that reflects the fundamentally nonlinear character of cognition.

Another work Roof-Ceiling (POF No 10), 1995, consists of a mechanical device which vacuums up the rubbish in a room and deposits it in a transparent ceiling overhead; installed in a hairdressing salon, it allows the viewer's newly sheared locks to become part of the architecture.

[11] Sensitive to biology, astronomy or even mathematics and physics, Fabrice Hyber transposes the scientific question into his work, both through the subjects treated and by exposing the creative process, like research tables.

[12] The Homeopathic Paintings by Fabrice Hyber highlight the body, the landscape or the object, echoing the act of creation which is explained from beginning to end.

In 2007, for example, he collaborated with the American biotechnologist Robert S. Langer on the issue of stem cells,[14] or, regularly, with the Institut Pasteur and the Professor Olivier Schwartz.

[17] In 2022 and 2023, the exhibitions presented at the Cartier Foundation and at the Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire illustrate the environmental issues that Fabrice Hyber questions in his work.

[22] Wishing to forge partnerships with private companies and to maintain a form of independence in his projects, their production and their distribution, Fabrice Hyber founded the SARL UR: Unlimited Responsibility in 1994.

Involving the UR company, the project consists of: having an inventory of objects present in Hyber's work, ordering or sending them, receiving them and placing them on the shelf publicly after the opening of the exhibition, modifying them according to what they are in his mind, putting them on sale.

[24] In March 2022, he collaborated with luxury leather goods designer Camille Fournet and created a limited and numbered edition capsule of products using his Hyber green.

Hybrid, absurd, subversive and yet very close to everyday objects, POFs start from reality and slide it towards the point where logical perception is undermined.

Conceived as invitations to the appropriation and diversion of the ordinary, the POFs are initially marketed by UR and can be made by each person according to an indication given by Fabrice Hyber.

[26] Responding to a public commission for the town of Bessines (Deux-Sèvres),[3] Fabrice Hyber undertakes to disperse six bronze men painted green in the village.

Through Spiral TV, the artist produces and broadcasts live (on cable and internet), twelve hours of daily programs under the name "It's Tomorrow Now", for five days.

Wishing to create a green setting around the monument, Fabrice Hyber deploys a belt of a hundred birch trees in opposition to the mineral character of the place.

Detached from the aesthetic of commemoration, Fabrice Hyber's project reflects the social, emotional or medical aspects linked to the virus.

[34] Eager to see art out of museums and centers dedicated, Fabrice Hybert It develops its first Hyber(t) Rally in Tokyo in 2001 - the same year he also exhibited at Watari Hum.

Developed since in Vassivière, Paris, Reunion island, Toulon, etc., the device invites spectators to take part in a vast treasure hunt intended to find POFs hidden in everyday spaces.

Fabrice Hyber drawing in his workshop in 2022
L'Homme de Bessines in the gardens of the Palais Royal in Paris (2022).
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L'Homme de Bessines in the gardens of the Palais Royal in Paris (2022).