ROGER VILDER Canada, b. 1938

Born in 1938 in Lebanon, Roger Vilder is a Franco-Canadian artist who studied fine arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Today he lives and works in Nîmes, France.

His works, based on movement and its representation, are reliefs that use electric motors and industrial equipment, mainly articulated chains and springs, to compose abstract works in constant transformation that evolve from geometric structure to organic form. His interests and research led Roger Vilder to take an early interest in new technologies: he is one of the pioneers of computer-aided artistic creation and the use of algorithms.

Vilder participated in major international events that marked the history of kinetic art, such as that of the Hayward Gallery in London in 1970 entitled Kinetics. The artist exhibited internationally, as in 1975, at the Contemporary Art Museum of Montreal and in 2012, at the French Institut of Barcelona in Spain. His works are part of many public and private collections, such as those of the Contemporary Art Museum Montreal, Canada; Museum of Fine Arts Montreal, Canada; Modern Art Museum San-Francisco, USA; Fine Arts Museum Ludwigshafen, Germany; Fondation Villa Datris L'isle sur la Sorgues, France.