Biography

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

DEVELOPMENT
When is was child, Erik Andler wonders about planets, stars, the vastness of the universe and the flow of time. The Artist delves into the mysteries of matter, studies the formation and end of stars and seeks to understand the origin and expansion of the universe. Impassioned by the movement of the hands of a Comtoise clock counting seconds and minutes, Erik Andler is also amazed by the physical phenomena that can be observed. The artist spends hours scanning the sky and trying to understand what forces build and nourish the universe.
But another passion lives within him: painting, which he perceives as living, being between two worlds: that of matter charged with resonance and the world that Goethe would call ‘spiritual’.

In 1988, Erik Andler moves to Dijon.
In 1993 – 1994, the artist develops his scientific knowledge.
In 1994, during a stay in Paris, Erik Andler is moved by impressionist painting.
In 1995, the artist studies mathematics at the CNAM.
In 2003 Erik Andler discovers conceptual art.
In 2006, the artist goes to New York. Erik Andler visits galleries and museums of Chelsea wich intoduce him to the different world.
In 2008, during a trip to New York, the artist meets On Kawara and is overwhelmed.
From 2008 to 2015, Erik Andler collaborates on exhibitions at international fairs in Paris, New York and Basel. During this period, in contact with different aesthetic approaches, his artistic sensitivity develops considerably.
In 2010, after a period of reflection, Erik Andler begins painting as a self-taught artist by formally adopting the pictorial aesthetics of “Date Paintings” by On Kawara. He starts painting first on paper.
In 2012, the artist executes his first painting on linen canvas, “NOV, 11. 2011”. 2011
In July 2012, Erik Andler moves to Paris from Dijon.
In 2013, it is obvious to the artist that the data of time, the metaphysics, of physics and astrophysics can be brought together in the same work. The artist then begins his work on the linearity of time. He proposes, like Newton, to observe a physical phenomenon through a date. Erik Andler realises the painting FEB 29 2004.
In 2014 and 2015, in order to strengthen his technique, he studies drawing at the ENSBA in Paris.
In August 2015, Erik Andler makes a study trip to Rome that allows him to develop his artistic sensibility.
September 2015, the artist leaves Paris to settle in Lyon and joins an ENSBA drawing studio.
In April 2016 Erik Andler begins to show his work.
In July 2016, the artist makes a study trip to Barcelona. This trip is decisive. he feels the need to detach himself from the formal borrowing of his earlier efforts to work of a more personal form.
Upon his return to Lyon, Erik Andler decided to use the form of the date defined by the international standard ISO 8601. This standard specifies the numerical representation of date and time. This rating, created in 1988, is intended to avoid any risk of confusion in international communications due to the large number of different regional ratings. It also has many advantages for IT use compared to other notations1.
In September 2016, following reflections made during his trip to Barcelona, the artist begins to work on the non-linearity of time. That is to say, the relativity of time.
New questions then arise from his paintings of this period.
In 2018, first solo exhibition from May 15 to June 15 at Emergence, Lyon 06.
In July 2019, Erik Andler takes part in a collective exhibition in Saint-Jean-d’Aulps with the members of the ‘Les TransFiguratifs’ association which he joined at the beginning of this year.
In January 2020, the artist meets with the ArtForScience co-founders and Professor Hugues Duffau.(Neuro surgeon and neuroscientist).
In spring 2020, first artist interview by the Art For Science association. In the year 2020, creation of the first painting of the chapter “Introspection”. In March 2022, Erik Andler creates his first digital paintings, some of which he mints in NFT.

ARTISTIC APPROACH
Erik Andler pursues a flexible approach that echoes the scientific work developed over the centuries. His paintings question time, its perception, its reality and space. But beyond time and space, Erik Andler’s work questions us about our daily lives, our world and the universe.
The first questions are asked:
What is time and what is its process?
What about psychological time and the perception we have of its flow?
Is time linear, isn’t it rather relative?

Is our world as we see it?

Erik Andler’s work questions our daily lives in which scientific laws are erected.
Beyond psychological time and its perception that troubles us, his paintings question science well beyond Newtonian physics. We then penetrate to the heart of general relativity and quantum physics. The first keys to reading Erik Andler’s works open a door to a world that seems to be different from the one in which we live.

Is our reality different from our feeling, from what we see?

ARTISTIC MOVEMENTS AND INFLUENCES
Contemporary art
Pablo Picasso ; On Kawara ; Wassily Kandinsky ; Antoni Tàpies.

1 https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html