Thursday 24 April at 7pm
Inaugural lesson, in the form of performance, by Ricardo Mosner,
following his appointment as Regent of Tanko- & Toichographie
by The College of Pataphysics.


(…) Whether it is his paintings with violent chromaticism and strong characters, his most humorous sculptures or his theater that was in its time violently avant-gardeguard, Mosner transforms the nostalgia of Argentina and his art of staging and distancing with a vitality and sensuality that lead him to always embody bodies of great presence. Terribly dense characters, inhabited by a sometimes ravishing vigor, great inhabitants of multicolored crowds and sprawling cities, barons and queens of the world of gouapes and suburbs, the beings of Mosner are those of the great theatre of life, death and desire, magic and dreams of exile.
Jean-Luc A. d'Asciano. In revue Ligeia.


(...) Ricardo Mosner is an artist worked by obsession and anxiety. His questioning of the relationship between man and the world has placed the human figure at the centre of his formal and aesthetic concerns. Pivot and base of its true interrogation, the figure is crushed, kneaded, stretched, picked up, cut, divided; always human. Reinvented with verve and malice, it has for support the canvas, cardboard, iron, wood, wire, plaster, paper. The pigments are worked to their maximum potential, in a gestuality and a desire for experimentation that allow Mosner to establish an infinite register of attitudes, physiognomies and characters.

Flirting with the comic strip, his art shows a bulimic ease and makes explode a jubilation of the material where, as in the drawing, he feels no constraint, no barrier.
What characterizes and makes the interest of Mosner’s art, is that it does not deviate from the famous libertarian adage of the poet: «Do as you please».
(…) The ability to paint, draw, cut, paste and assemble make Ricardo Mosner an artist and a craftsman of enjoyment and freedom. In the interwoven strength and weakness of form and «object», nothing human seems to be foreign to him.
Christine Frérot. In Contemporary Art of Latin America and Ricardo Mosner Sculptures, catalogue of the Argentine Gallery, Paris.

Ricardo Mosner was born in Buenos Aires and lives and works in Paris.
From the end of the 60s he exhibited and organized performances and happenings. Between 1970 and 1980, he directed and performed about twenty pictorial shows with his troupe Le Théâtre en Poudre (Paris, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Barcelona...) As an actor he worked with Copi, Stephen Frears, Jerôme Savary... He creates performances and performs with Daniel Melingo, bandoneonist Pablo Nemirovsky and the group Tierra del Fuego, duo Volco & Gignoli, Theo Hakola, dancers Amy Fujiwara, Aurélia Jarry, Kaori Suzuki and Silvia Lezcano, singers Marina Cedro and Jeanne La Fonta.

Painter, sculptor and engraver he has exhibited at the Paris Biennale, the Triennale of the Americas, the Stedelijk Museum and the Sculpture Biennial in the Netherlands, at the ARC Ateliers at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, at «L'Amérique Latine au Grand-Palais», «Les Murs Peints» at the Centre Georges Pompidou, «Les chimères de Mosner» at the Musée François Pompon, at the Paul Valéry Museum in Sète, at the Comic Strip Museum in Angoulême, at the Museo del Tigre, at the Centro Cultural Recoleta and the Alliances Françaises of Argentina... He has made 240 personal exhibitions in France and abroad.
Ricardo Mosner illustrated Alfred Jarry and Edgar Poe at Gallimard, Claude Nougaro and Étienne Roda-Gil at Albin Michel, he has produced artist books with Michel Butor, Bernard Noël, Jacques Jouet and Joël Bastard, he created posters for the Festival d'Avignon, Les Rita Mitsouko, El Camarón de la Isla, Pascal Comelade, Les Amis du Musée d'Art Moderne, Riccardo del Fra...
He is the protagonist of the film «Le théorème de Mosner» by Esteban Perroud and Daniel Melingo» (Official selection of the BAFICI Festival, Argentina)
Mosner has collaborated on the program “Des Papous dans la Tête” on France Culture for more than 30 years, he is Regent of the College of 'Pataphysique and, for twenty years, he organizes the exhibitions of the group “El Colectivo” (Paris, Buenos Aires, New York)
In 2022 he made a monumental bas-relief for the City of Bagneux, on the occasion of this event a retrospective exhibition is dedicated to him at the Maison des Arts.
His sculptures and paintings are permanently exhibited at the Embassy of the Argentine Republic in Paris.
With the Galerie Lara Vincy, Ricardo Mosner has been exhibiting since 1985. In 2025 he presents the exhibition «Didascalies»: paintings and drawings on various supports, assemblages, sculptures, objects and artist books.