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La Voix du Nord (May 22, 2008) Lille
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A successful second edition of the Very Artistic Festival
People came in droves at the preview of this festival of arts.
The Superior school of communication in Lille is currently welcoming in its offices the second edition of the Very Artistic Festival.
Organized by third year students - communication official or graphic design specialty -, the Very Artistic Festival makes it possible for some artists to seize the walls of the school and to present their creations to the large public, as well as to the economic and cultural actors of the area. Another point, the organization of this festival and the search for artists and partners led the students to put forward their competences. Five of them - Sarah Bekhiekh, Caroline Dimpre, Marie Duval, Fanny Juillard, Charlotte Riou and Samuel Turpin - thus worked consequently and proposed as a topic “The hidden side of the nude”.
Bodypainting
A topic which has challenged regional or national artists. Eric Bourdon, young and recognized painter from Lille who exhibits at the Schèmes gallery and in New York, and Dorine Roussel, photographer who won a publication in the Photo magazine during the 27th “world biggest photo contest”, were involved. Through an installation related to the bodypainting and very beautiful photographs, the two artists gathered their talents to make discover their perception of the body. They approached nudity with a great sensibility, while placing the body in an urban context. [...]
The director of Esupcom, Bruno Vreux, was particularly satisfied with the work of the pupils and more particularly with the selection of the artists who charmed and intrigued the visitors.
J-.M. DUM. (CLP)
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La Voix du Nord (6-7 avril 2008) Arras
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Today and tomorrow, at the town hall, solidarity, one can see it in painting
The 21st Spring show of the ‘Vimy la Gohelle en Artois’ Lions-club has been inaugurated, Friday evening, at the town hall, by Christine Caron, president, and Didier Dewulf, from the Schèmes gallery (Lille).
Under the Hoffbauer [Charles Hoffbauer's work], other Masters of contemporary painting show themselves to the public. From the meticulous painting by a Boleck Budzyn [...] to Jean-Claude Dailly exercices of style [...] one can also smile before Pascal Feutry steroid-made paintings or the childish games of Eric Bourdon.
One will find also canvas by Monelle Binet, Pasek, Pentel, Augustiniak, Vincent Ducourant, Michèle Van Cotthem, oils on cardboard by France-Lyne Champagne [...] The paintings are for sale. Part of the sums will be intended for the charitable actions of the Lions.
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Photo #446 (January-February 2008)
This photo by Dorine Roussel won a publication in the French magazine PHOTO, during the 27th “world biggest photo contest” (50.000 photos, 70 countries)
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La Voix du Nord (July 5, 2007) Roubaix
- DISCOVERIES -
END OF YEAR EXHIBITION AT THE QUINET-BERT SCHOOL
This exhibition which has been proposed until July 3, was a presentation of painting works of elementary school pupils from the class of Alexandre Classiot, following the weekly interventions in visual arts of the artist Eric Bourdon.
Eric Bourdon, self-taught 28 years old painter, has had to analyse his own technique of drawing, developed for 10 years, to be able to make it communicable to pupils of elementary school, so that they can re-use it on their level. This transmission was done in several stages. It was initially needed, for awaking them, to lead the pupils to discover works of great well-known painters and their techniques that the children had to take back in their own style. Joan Miro has been used then for his work on the lines and his special correspondence with the works of Eric Bourdon shown to the children.
The general idea was to trace lines at random on a white sheet, to then find new characters by adding elements giving them an identity (eyes, mouth, ears, legs...). In this simple way, the children developed capacities of graphic improvisation on the basis of controlled chaos. This trick makes it possible to bypass the eternal blocking of the “white sheet”.
The true pictorial creativity became accessible to 6 or 7 years old children, as demonstrated by the exposed works. The various stages led the children to work in an individual way, then by groups of 3 on a large sheet, while passing by a mosaic of drawings forming a robot supporting the canvas of the painter, to come out onto a purely collective work which is the climax of the interventions since it is a true large painter canvas [1mx1m] to which each pupil took part: “The ghost frightens the giant”. A final work which shows the involvement of the children.
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Arts : Eric Bourdon's funny chaos
January 2006, Paul Masquelier, Editor in chief of Krisis
(This text is the translation of the original article, later published in the Parisian intellectual magazine 'Elements' #119)
Eric Bourdon : towards a symptomal painting?
The painter Eric Bourdon is in the image of his generation. He reflects through his painting the world which surrounds him, he sometimes seems to make fun about it with cynicism, but one does not know too much up to which point he decided to take his distances with it. Undoubtedly this is there too all the interest of his canvas. One sees there reflecting themselves better than in many books of analysis all the torments and all the contradictions, but also all the joy and all the aspirations, of a youth which expresses its "fury of living". In a sense, James Dean is not far behind these canvas where the American flag runs like a flood of tears and blood, but where also exposes itself, with a naivety and an enthusiasm which missed in Warhol, the fascination of an artist for the myths which condition us. The homage to the teletubbies, which hide sometimes among these eccentric and picassian characters which are the "women without a head" and other "flying cows", is not only one mark of humour; it translates the incapacity lived and assumed of a young man to leave childhood, regressive passion that, like tens of thousands of French of his age, the painter probably dedicated to this series produced in the United States bound for the children of less than three years...
It is also the time which speaks through him when devastating self-portraits show the artist smiling towards the spectator, the teeth brushed with wonderbright, the body probably a little more muscular than of reason. Megalomania or critical of vanity? A little both, all things considered. Derision excludes paradoxically here any called into question from that which one laughs oneself, in a style which defines only too well the young contemporary art: thus in the scenario writer Quentin Tarantino, who only caricatures the seventies to like them, and apes their violence without judging it (neither in Good, nor in Evil). The pastiche, to take again the formula of the American culturalist Frederic Jameson, replaces the parody. Chaos overrides the sense.
With this symptomal topicality of the work answers contrary a certain formal nostalgia. Not towards the canons of the great art of the classical ones, which seem definitely irretrievable by the ways of thinking of today, but towards these exuberant experiments of the art of the beginning of the twentieth century - cubism and surrealism at the head. Here is still a feature of our time: the retrospective and the mixture become principles, and the criterions of the taste are definitively vague.
The canvas of our painter are now sold in several galleries of the capital and province, but also in Boston: a start of success thus takes shape for him. One will be delighted by that. But one will certainly also think that in more of being instructive and being worth like symptoms, these canvas have the infinite merit to recall that, in spite of our lifesickness, our hesitations and our uncertainties, we can still find some fervour in the glance which we carry on the things. Well, they do not give the blues (= the ‘bourdon’), the canvas of the friend Eric!
Paul Masquelier
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La Voix du Nord (June 9, 2002) Lille
IN LILLE, ERIC BOURDON AND ROBERT-HENRI CLAISSE AT SCHEMES
THE SHOCK OF THE GENERATIONS
With a double exhibition introducing Robert-Henri Claisse and Eric Bourdon, it’s something like the shock of generations that the gallery Schèmes of Lille proposes.
At 83 y.o., the first one does not stop exploring Venice and Cyclades, not hesitating to take again outlines of paintings of 20 years ago. « If I began in the abstraction, I return today to the figuration, construction, the perspective » explains the painter who worked with Jean Dubuffet. « Into growing old, I return to more luminous tonalities ».
The second one is a 23 y.o. young man who launched out in painting four years ago. Whereas he prepares a licence (third year) in philosophy, he draws on his copies at the university. Very quickly, he finds a tone which allures the owner of the gallery of the street of the Hôpital-Militaire. Which was not the only one to give him his chance since two parisian galleries and another in Boston show his work. With semi-way between surrealism and cartoon, the painting of E. Bourdon is coloured, funny. Filled with references Shadoks kind and comical characters. For Robert-Henri Claisse, « it’s an other world ».
J.-M.D.
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La Voix du Nord (May 16, 2001) Lille
Eight new arrivals among independent artists
The grouping of the independent artists of Lille, directed by the artist Donato Ortéga, still goes really well. Saturday, it carried out the examination of the five works proposed by the twenty-five new candidates wishing to enter this prestigious group [...] the artists came from all the region [...] with a detour by Belgium.
In front of delicate works like the Petit Quinquin of Madeleine Kinoo or the beauty of line of the sculptures of Gabriel Guliani, in front of the diversity of the styles and techniques, the jury made up of ten artists, had a very difficult time, but it was pitiless. Only eight artists out of twenty-five obtain the coveted label of the independent artists of Lille. They are Misters and Mrs Paradis, Goditiabois, Finance, Mulliez, Delanoy, Gouya, Guliani, and the one who becomes thus the youngest of the independent artists of Lille, Eric Bourdon .
These eight artists will be then the innovation of the 68th show of the independent artists of Lille [...]
J.-P.L.
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La Voix du Nord (May 2000) Villeneuve d'Ascq A definitely very creative young man
After his Miro period and his Picasso period - the Spanish masters that he admires more, whithout forgetting Dali - [Eric Bourdon] attacks his more personal period: a tangle of small varied and figurative patterns, covering all the canvas, with bright oil colors or, less toxic [...] and drying faster, with acrylic painting.
He discovered painting two years ago. It quickly became a vital need!
[...] the artist, who does not run after only one hare, since he also published a book, Hors-Sujets (Sils Maria Publishing), on the topic of artistic creation. A second book must follow. Here is definitely a very creative young man!
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