Crespin received a lot of attention for his work Grand HexaNet which in 2018 was shown in the Artists & Robots exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris. This led to him being invited to create a permanent work for the Louvre in connection with the 30th anniversary of the museum’s pyramid-shaped main entrance. With the work L’Onde du Midi, he is today one of two living artists represented at the Louvre.
Elias Crespin (b. 1965, Venezuela) is a trained computer engineer and was active in Caracas until 2008. Today he lives and works in Paris. His work has been shown at biennales and art institutions in several countries, including the Biennale in Cuenca, Ecuador; Busan Biennale, South Korea; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA; Grand Palais and Musée de la Musique, Paris, France; Boghossian Foundation, Maison Particulière and Verrière Hermès, Brussels, Belgium; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany; and the UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China. He is represented in collections at, among others, the Louvre and the Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, France; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA; and MALBA, Buenos Aires Museum of Latin American Art, Argentina.
