Biography

THE ARTISTE

Erik Andler
Born 15 octobre 1965 in Langres (52) France
Live and works in Saint-Etienne, Lyon and Paris

DEVELOPMENT / ARTISTIC APPROACH

Erik Andler is a contemporary French artist whose work explores the relationships between time, perception, and consciousness. Trained in mathematics at the CNAM and in drawing at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, he develops a practice in which the rigor of temporal structures encounters the instability of perceptual experience. His approach lies at the intersection of art, physics, neuroscience, and philosophy.

Since 2016, Erik Andler has been developing Distorted Date™, a conceptual body of paintings based on the distortion of dates written according to the ISO 8601 standard. By deforming this universal temporal structure, he transforms the date — a neutral symbol of time — into a plastic space where perception, memory, and invisible dynamics linked to the experience of reality interact. Distortion becomes the vector of lived time: unstable, subjective, and profoundly human, opening a reflection on the way reality is grasped and reconfigured by consciousness.

The work unfolds through several thematic chapters forming an organic and evolving structure, each examining a specific dimension of temporality or perceptual experience, and announcing ongoing developments within a corpus in constant evolution. This chapter-based structure, rarely explicit in contemporary pictorial practices, situates the artist’s work within a research process that is both methodical and open-ended.

Since 2018, his work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Paris, Lyon, and Geneva. It has also been featured in print and online publications, as well as in radio broadcasts, reflecting the growing interest generated by his approach.

His meeting with Professor Hugues Duffau in 2020 initiated an ongoing dialogue around the links between perception, plasticity, and the experience of time. This relationship fuels a line of inquiry that accompanies the conceptual construction of his work. Since then, Erik Andler has collaborated regularly with the Art For Science association, taking part in some of their exhibitions and initiatives in support of research.

Through a precise, methodical, and sensitive painting practice, the artist develops a reflection on the construction of time within consciousness and the perceptual processes that shape our relationship to reality. His approach also resonates with certain notions drawn from physical time, without seeking to offer a literal translation of them. His work thus situates itself within a constant dialogue between art, perception, and knowledge, forming a continuously evolving corpus whose conceptual articulations remain open to interpretation.

FIELD OF RESEARCH 

Contemporary conceptual art.