Born in 1981 in France, Baptiste Tavernier pursues a creative path that has led from experimental music through the martial arts of Japan to the painter’s canvas, where his muse now focuses.
Trace Tavernier’s polymath œuvre and you find three cynosures guiding him: intense concern with pattern and logic; relentless focus on the discipline of craft; and creative inspiration without horizons. On canvas, these three elements now fuse to reveal a unique and rigorously observed perspective, elegantly rendered with impeccable craft: mathematically precise abstractions the form of surreal cities.
It is the culmination of a journey that began early in the millennium at Paris University with studies in digital arts and musical composition, influenced by experimental music pioneers like Gerard Grisey, Salvatore Sciarrino and Steve Reich.
Tavernier’s path took a dramatic virage in 2006 with the decision to move to Japan and immerse himself in martial arts. Within a decade, though, he had reached higher ranks in several disciplines of swordsmanship, achieved proficiency in the making and repair of armours, while studying Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement), and Monsho Gaku, the Japanese heraldic tradition.
Since 2010, Tavernier has created a diverse body of work, including musical, digital and pictorial projects. Geometric abstractions and Eastern aesthetics, which he is now best known for, hold an important place in his portfolio. Friends and collectors have watched with growing awe the evolution of an artist, not yet 40, who seems destined for recognition as a master in his generation.
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