May

3

Eric Bourdon exhibition

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   Characters drawn via improvisation and painted with acrylic colors invest all media : from paintings to the coffee table, to the dressmaker’s bust… A work of shaping lines in chaos, in order to bring out always new and atypical creatures.

 

   Schemes Gallery (specializing in contemporary art and authentic Indian furniture), 27 rue de l’Hôpital Militaire in Lille. Free admission. Wed-Sat 1:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

 

www.ericbourdon.com

 

 

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Mar

25

Eric Bourdon : his new girl in the window of the Schemes Gallery !

March 25, 2012 | by | Leave a Comment

In the window of the Schemes Gallery in Lille, the creatures of Claudia or Denis Bisch have all eyes turned to the ‘last great one’ of Eric Bourdon.

 

 

This is the second bust painted by Eric Bourdon. The first one was the front of a high-impact polystyrene bust mounted on a frame. It is this time a dressmaker’s dummy worked at 360°, rotating on its stand or to be laid flat on a table.

 

 

The drawing remains the same whether the surface is a canvas or a 3D object. But besides the unexpected decorative aspect, the idea is to join the artistic concept itself (creation of character, body, creatures…) with the medium itself. In other words, to ‘give body’ to the concept…

 
The Schemes Gallery is located at 27 rue de l’Hôpital Militaire in Lille.

Open from Wednesday to Saturday 1pm-6:30pm.

Underground station: République.

(->Map)
 
 
Photos © Eric Bourdon
 

Nov

8

Web directories: Art / Painters / Painting / Artists…

November 8, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment


Brief selection of English-speaking directories, which have recently brought visitors to www.ericbourdon.com.

You will also find many other artistic sites selected by the directories administrators and continuously evaluated by the visitors. For getting your bearings on the web of art, or registering your own website on efficient directories…

 

ubound.info / Arts   linkcentre.com   ids.in / Artists   saferpage.com   sitereviewer.net   websitespromotiondirectory.com / visual-arts

square-annuaire.com   ofcourse.us

deemx.com / Painting   paintings-directory.com   web-liens.fr   hotfrog.co.uk   webmaster-rank.info / culture-artiste   link.or.id   kk04.com allsitessorted.com / Arts / Artists

 

Oct

15

Carlos Latuff : caricature & ideology

October 15, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

The works of Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff deal with political and U.S.-made-war themes, and mostly with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Caricature is the best way to point up the real ‘reasons’ behind some conflicts. In ‘The chosen and the chased’, divinisation of oneself inevitably comes with de-humanisation of others…

…and also reflects the past dehumanisations.

Thinking of oneself as entirely different, distinct from the rest of Humanity, since thousands years ago, by nature, by essence, by fate, by God… can be lived as something of an ideology, something in the name of which any inhumanity may – or MUST – become sadly logical, as well as apartheid, division, unability to communicate on a basic human level… and everlasting unwillingness to start to resolve any kind of conflict (except by the use of force). This is not what people are, this is ideology and ideology is inherent to every people, especially in times of war. That’s where the interest of caricature stands. It points up the social phantasms which guide one’s behaviour and actions, the delusions of power or persecution that blur and distort consciousness of oneself and others.

More than any kind of therapy, caricature plays with social nightmares, whether they’re of strenght or weakness; a well done caricature produces social awakening, feeling that humanity is the same from one being to an other, whatever one thinks either side of a conflict, and regardless of how one side wants to be ‘specially’ considered.

Carlos Latuff made available hundreds of his drawings at:

latuff2.deviantart.com

They can be freely reproduced, printed and distributed by all means.


 
 
All images : © Carlos Latuff

Sep

24

La Linea – Osvaldo Cavandoli

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www.youtube.com – La Linea

 
 

Jul

3

Flatness in pictorial art

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“It has been established by now, it would seem, that the irreducibility of pictorial art consists in but two constitutive conventions or norms: flatness and the delimitation of flatness. In other words, the observance of merely these two norms is enough to create an object which can be experienced as a picture: thus a stretched or tacked-up canvas already exists as a picture – though not necessarily as a successful one.”

Clement Greenberg, “After Abstract Expressionism” (1962)

May

22

Schemes Gallery artist Eric Bourdon

May 22, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment


Eric Bourdon creates new and attractive characters in just a few improvised strokes, in a pop style, symbolic and full of emotions, colours and joy.

A work that will interest as much the old as it will please the young, with these comic paintings and very sharp acrylic colors.

The Schemes Gallery in Lille, France, represents Eric Bourdon since more than ten years, and Bicha Gallery has begun to show his works in London and internationally.

 

The Schemes Gallery is located at 27 rue de l’Hôpital Militaire in Lille.

Open from Wednesday to Saturday 1pm-6:30pm.

Underground station: République.

(->Map)

 

www.ericbourdon.com

 

Image © Eric Bourdon
#262 ‘Apricot’, 81x65cm, acrylic on linen, painting from Schemes Gallery

Mar

23

Banksy: Boston & Cambridge 2010

March 23, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

Banksy: Boston & Cambridge 2010 from Greg Shea on Vimeo.

Mar

11

Schemes Gallery

March 11, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

Established more than thirty years ago by Jean-François Parmentier, the Schemes Gallery has been entirely renovated by Didier Dewulf to become today the biggest art gallery north of Paris.

In there you’ll find the greatest figurative painters in the region, the ‘onirics’ and ‘symbolists’ whose drawing is sometimes much more refined – but no pure ‘abstract’; a few major sculptors, and also some very nice authentic wooden Indian furniture, at amazing prices (directly imported by the gallery).

Welcoming families as well as collectors (whatever their budget or experience might be) or just ordinary tourists and curious, you’ll be warmly received by the Schemes Gallery and will get the best advice from its staff.

The Schemes Gallery is located at 27 rue de l’Hôpital Militaire in Lille.

Open from Wednesday to Saturday 1pm-6:30pm.

Underground station: République.

(->Map)