Éric Bourdon
| Éric Bourdon | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1979 France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Painter and writer |
Éric Bourdon (born in 1979) is a French painter and writer.
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[edit] Painting career
Bourdon's works have in common vivid colors and unpremeditated pencil strokes, expressive of raw enthusiasm in the "art brut" or "Outsider Art" manner. Paul Masquelier, critic for the controversial review "Eléments" [1] has pointed out the narcissistic or regressive aspects of his paintings, while noting their social commentary and the feeling of joie de vivre they convey. [2]
[edit] Writing career
Bourdon wrote a book of philosophy in 2000[3] about artistic creation in practice. He wrote a long article for the magazine Concepts 1, comparing the first ethnological discoveries of L. Ron Hubbard, later the founder of the Church of Scientology, to Zarathustra by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.[4]
Six years later he published a dark psychological thriller, Les Voleurs d'Enfant (The Child Thieves),[5] depicting a cult against the cults. Although set in Boston, it is a dig at the French associations claiming religious neutrality and opposition to cults while behaving the same way as the cults they denounce. [6]
[edit] Books
- Hors-sujets, ou l'art du néant et rebonds philosophiques ("Beside the Point, or the Art of Nothingness and Philosophical Rebounds"), Sils Maria asbl, February 2000.
- Introduction to Nietzsche's "Also Spratch Zarathustra", in Concepts [1], Sils Maria asbl, August 2000, pp 91-108.
- Les Voleurs d'Enfant (The Child Thiefs), La Méduse, Lille, August 2006.
[edit] External links
- (English) and (French) official website
[edit] References
- ^ "Eléments" is one of the reviews of the Groupement de recherche et d'études pour la civilisation européenne
- ^ Paul Masquelier, Eléments (#119), January 2006.
- ^ Sils-Maria (Belgium) publishers.
- ^ Sils Maria Publishers
- ^ 'Editions de la Méduse' (Lille, France)
- ^ Official presentation page of the novel Les Voleurs d'Enfant.
