Carrying out the idea that “art starts where the words end”, the painting of Eric Bourdon is a graphic universe with its own language, significance and motivations.
The other grids of interpretation will thus not retain anything of the multiplicity of his works but the illusion of a confused, uncontrolled and elusive route. In the paintings of Eric Bourdon, the culturalist Paul Masquelier, for example, was astonished that “chaos overrides the meaning”.
The graphic universe of Eric Bourdon is undoubtedly not that of the meaning and the language, unless it is the meaning of the line and the language of the colors. Because no intellectual interpretation reaches the heart of the creative process in action.
In other words, this is not the least quality of a painter and a creator to know to go blind to certain parts of his being, to reserve himself for the only pleasure of eyes…