Fabrice HYBER - Biography and artist's artworks

Fabrice Hyber (Fabrice Hybert, known as)
Born in 1961 in Luçon
Lives and works in Vendée
Fabrice Hyber studied mathematics and then art at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, graduating in 1985. 

Fabrice Hyber works in drawing, painting, sculpture, and video, placing the links between art and science, and reflections on humanity and its future at the center of his work. Early in his career, he combined art and business, creating his logo in bright green, which he uses throughout his creations. In 1994, he founded SARL UR (Unlimited Responsibility), which produces books, events, and works known as POFs (Prototypes d'Objets en Fonctionnement, or Prototypes of Functioning Objects), such as Le Plus Grand Savon du Monde / Traduction (The World's Largest Soap / Translation) (1990-1991), a 27-ton soap measuring 6 meters high and 2 meters long. In 1995, he created the Hybertmarché, a workshop and consignment shop for his drawings and objects at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. In his paintings and drawings, he mixes figures, objects, collages, diagrams, and writing, proceeding by hybridization and accumulation. In Vendée, he created La Vallée, a wooded area, a “natural and artistic reserve” central to his work. He carried out major commissions in Paris, such as L'Arter, the garden of drawings which, over 1001m2, reproduces the ribbon, untied, of the SIDACTION association (Parc de la Villette, 2003-2004) or the sculpture Le Cri, l'écrit, which commemorates the abolition of slavery (Jardin du Luxembourg, 2006). In 1997, he represented France at the Venice Biennale and won the Prize for Best Pavilion. In 2018, he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts. His works feature in major collections and exhibitions have been dedicated to him all over the world. 

Fabrice Hyber said: “I sow trees as I sow signs and images. They are there, I sow seeds of thought that are visible, they make their way and they grow. I am no longer in control.”