Robert Labor

I was born in a small village in Reunion Island, a French department ... passionate about Art and painting from the age of 14 ... I first followed normal and usual studies and education (Bachelor in Mathematics) faculties of Montpellier, and I gave up everything in 1961 to turn to my passion and make it my job.

Art studies in Lyon and Professor of plastic arts in Paris (Institut Claude Bernard now replaced by Universities Arts). I started to do exhibitions in 1961 (Galerie Azur Montpellier) certified in plastic arts promotion 1970. Art teacher at Beziers 1971. I returned to my island (far from artistic centers) in Reunion in 1972 where I I taught from 1972 to 1997 while starting a real creation. I taught during the day and painted at night.

I have a fairly large production that I have been highlighting since my retirement in 1997 (associate in art) and I still continue to create in 2018.

I designed what I call "My Métis Romanticism" ... Paintings, abstractions, figurations, plurality and minimalism. I build my work without the idea of situating myself in the presence of a fashion or in the assurance of a concept or of connecting myself to a particular or restricted field which can be justified as personal ... I am and want to stay myself ... a thinking medium ... intuitive and conscious ... as in a state of meditation or communion with my creation.

It is the passion which guides me in my intuition… Experiences and analyzes (which is done after the fact… and allows me to accept and to accept myself); the adventure of a diverse production but faithful to my feeling of the Art that I want to present to the world ... an art faithful to myself.

I use the image in all the dimensions it offers itself to me ... by a set of framing, cutouts, assemblies, structuring, restructuring ... I invent ... but also recovers and transforms ...

The image is open social, cultural and material and it is this open image that appeals to me… that I create what I call "My contemporary romanticism" in a conversation with painting, history and reality

1960 Montpellier exhibition (first personal exhibition) Landscapes and Portraits

70s exhibitions-animations; Manager facilities; (years) Current gallery st Pierre (Réunion) from 1970 to 1979

1979 Creil International Expo Bronze Medal Le Fardeau Painting

1979 Leon Dierx Museum exhibition

1980 Tsaho St Pierre gallery (Réunion) which hosted various works on paper and large paintings

1992 exhibition gallery le cadre noir st Denis (Réunion) several exhibitions Collages Le Theme du Papier: paper and local culture ... newspapers as decoration and wallpaper in Creole houses

1990-92 PARIS. Permanent artist Espace 51 gallery and Alternat gallery

Exhibition of the series of Women 80s and Collages 90 Women shift, sensuality and feminity

1996 exhibition Departmental Office of Culture St Denis (Réunion)

Great retrospective exhibition of my years of work with Videos and paintings: icons of EMMAUS

1996 Beaudemoulin le Tampon Réunion space.

My First Entropy: Classics, cubists, POP

1998 exhibition Avignon (Galerie le petit Louvre) Large Installation WOMEN

1999-2000expo st Rémy de Provence LIEUX GARANCE Gallery: Installation History of the St Marcellin Chapel

2001 exhibition Avignon gallery ENTRY IN MATTERS Seizing the Moment

2002 Château de Portes exhibition (Cévennes with catherine Plassart ART-POINT FRANCE)

Château de Portes (old stones from the Middle Ages)

2003 EUROP'ART exhibition in Geneva (Switzerland) Collage and Minimalists…

2003 BIENNIAL exhibition in FLORENCE (Italy):

INDIA Saffron yellow and mystical… death tradition belief human life

Works in Rome (Zen paintings) The flesh of the apricot, Virginity, Virginal… minimalist color and writing

2004-2005 Permanent artist ENTREE EN MATIERES AVIGNON

Above the clouds Voyage Reunion

2005 Initiation Concept: The PART-OVER (end of 2005) ...

2005 Expo Artbygeneve 2009: "Volcanoes" ... the four elements series of 9 square paintings of 50X50cm

2010 Expos CRR st Pierre and Expo Galerie de la Médiathèque

Ode to Pierrefonds Performance of styles

2013 Milan Expo Garage Milano

2014 ASIA Contemporary Fair

2015 Expo Solo MYTHS and Mental Geometry

2015 Miami Red Dot, December 2-7, Galerie Studio 26 NYC

2016 Select NYC with Studio 26Gallery

2017 EXPO LABOR / CHAZAL St Pierre Réunion