Biography

PRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT OF THE “Distorted Date” created by Erik Andler.

THE ARTISTE

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

DEVELOPMENT

Erik Andler is interested in science, planets, stars, the vastness of the universe and the flow of time. The artist delves into the mysteries of matter, and seeks to understand the origin and expansion of the universe. Erik Andler is also interested in physical phenomena that can be observed and in neuroscience.
But another passion inhabits him: painting, which he perceives as a living being between two worlds, that of matter charged with vibrations and the world that Goethe calls “spiritual”.
The artist studied mathematics at the CNAM and drawing at the ENSBA.

Erik Andler combines his passion for science and painting in his works.
To talk about his vision and his feelings about the flow of time, the artist represents dates on his canvases according to the international standard ISO 8601. That is to say composed only of numbers. This standard is specific to the digital representation of the date and time. This notation, created in 1988, is intended to avoid any risk of confusion in international communications due to the large number of different regional notations. It also has many advantages for computer use compared to other notations1.
In September 2016, the artist began working on the non-linearity of time. He then developed a new concept that he called: Distorted Date.
New questions then arise from his new paintings.
In 2018, 1st solo exhibition in Lyon.
In 2020, Erik Andler met the co-founders of Art For Science and Professor Hugues Duffau (Neuro surgeon and neuroscience researcher). In March 2022, the artist created a first collection of NFTs.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

The artist pursues a plastic approach that questions 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 our perception of its flow?
Is time linear, or is it not rather relative? Is our world as we see it?

Erik Andler’s work questions our daily lives in which scientific laws are established.
Beyond psychological time and its perception that troubles us, his paintings question well beyond Newtonian physics. The artist’s work immerses us in the heart of neuroscience, 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 we live in. Is our reality different from our feelings, 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