Xavier de Richemont
Born in Algeria in 1959, Xavier de Richemont studied painting at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Aix-en-Provence. He now lives and works in Angers and considers himself a ‘video painter’. Founder of the Festival des LumièresFestival of Lights de Chartres in 2002 (made permanent by the city of Chartres the following year, under the name of “Chartres en Lumières”), he has created monumental video works in several countries around the world, especially Germany, Mexico, the USA, Morocco and India. He is the author of a trilogy on Joan of Arc for the city of Orléans, projected onto the Sainte-Croix Cathedral in 2016, 2017 and 2018: Jeanne, visages universels [Ndlt: Joan, universal visages]. In 2020, he creates Une histoire de la Charpenterie [a history of carpentry] for the Maison de maître de La Charpenterie in Cornillé-les-Caves, and Urba Ixo for Roubaix town hall: two monumental video mapping projects of fairly long duration — each lasting around 25 minutes — which, on top of their graphic and pictorial qualities, convey a sense of a historical narrative — epic and documented.
Xavier de Richemont : URBAIXO - Hôtel de Ville de Roubaix, 2020.