What must an artist, or what should an artist portray? Battle scenes, Nature? Zeus throwing lighting bolts here and there? « Good artwork, as T. Isabel puts it, gives us a clear view of the world [...], it produces representations which bear joy and health, and evokes an outbreak of values favourable in the development of self-esteem, amongst those who look at it; in doing so, it plunges them into a state of calm and assurance, helping to overcom anguish »*.             ERIC BOURDON finds a great deal of pleasure in various kinds of painting. But he's also fully aware of the fundamental change which has been carried from modern art to classical representative art. Picasso said: « I don't paint what I see, I paint what I think». ERIC BOURDON's artwork is not conditioned by representation. It communicates as well through representation than directly from spirit to spirit, whithout a go-between.               The familiar forms that we find in his paintings are never conceived as representations of people, animals or known objects. Even in his most figurative works, these are simply symbolical frames which help the artist to express himself efficiently.               The apparent chaos of the paintings of ERIC BOURDON is truly only the dust and the chips of an energetic work of uncovering the leading power lines, and elaborating the most positive symbols, of visual communication and graphic conscience of Life itself.                                                                                               K.S.

*Thibault Isabel, Le Champ du Possible ,  Ed. de La Méduse, p.359

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