For many years he has been engaged in artistic work around the question of sculpture and its constitution. His varied subjects use the tensions between cultural values and natural organizations revealed by graphic or photographic images. After a master’s degree on “the use of plastic materials in art” at the University of Provence Aix-Marseille (1980), Antoine Desjardins lived and worked in New York from 1981 to 1990, during which time his work was presented in various galleries and institutions in the US and Europe. He moved to Paris, where he continued his work, focusing from 1994 onwards on the influence of digital tools and languages in the process of creating form in art.
He has been teaching art since 1993, focusing on the evolution of systems of representation and means of production and their impact on form. He has founded workshops for the digital practice of sculpture and objects at the national art schools of Nancy and Limoges. He has been a member of the program committees for symposia at the École des Mines de Nancy (“Metallurgy, Art, Computer Science 2003,” “Iris, sense and essence of color 2005”) and has given talks in many forms at various art schools and universities (“Pertinence des outils numériques dans les processus de création de formes et d’images” [Relevance of digital tools in the processes of creating forms and images] Trier Art School (Germany) 2004, “Dust & Digital. On the incidence of digital tools in object conception and creation” Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, 2008, “Eines informatiques en els processos de creacio” Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona 2009, ” Plurivocity and Ubiquity of Digital Tools” at the Yerevan State School of Fine Arts, Armenia 2010…) and has collaborated with professionals (NSided Company, design of the Quidam3D software, 2005, Metallurgie Rml-MicronEst, Florange, 2010…). His artistic work is regularly shown in various galleries and exhibitions.
Since 2015, he has been conducting research and creation modules at Ensad and is attached within Ensadlab to the research group Réflective Interaction, focusing on 3D printing and materials. Since 2019, he has been collaborating with Giancarlo Rizza (CEA, LSI Polytechnique) on the development of “Zoïmorphism”, a research project axed on 4D printing and magnetic activation.