The Incredible Lightness of Being

Published on 2025-11-18 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Painting  


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The Incredible Lightness of Being

Original acrylic painting on linen canvas
Artwork size : 25.59 x 18.11” / 65 x 46 cm

© Gallery of painter Eric Bourdon
Lille, France, 2025



     With his acrylic painting on canvas entitled “The Incredible Lightness of Being,” the painter Eric Bourdon addresses the problem of being by focusing on its pictorial manifestation, which is as light as it is incredible.

     If the question of being doesn’t seem to be at the heart of pictorial art, it’s not due to any disinterest, but rather, on the contrary, for a very specific reason that can be summarized as follows : the incredibly light problem of manifestation is nevertheless deeper, more fundamental, more primal than the problem of being…

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     HUMY is holding in Paris and online its 15th exhibition and auction : a street art event featuring painter Eric Bourdon. Proceeds will be donated to the HUMY association to support its projects for environmental protection and co-development in 2026.

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Vercingetorix

Original acrylic painting
Hand-painted ‘Double Deck’ (1978-1979) skateboard

Artwork size : 6.69 x 27.76″ / 17 x 70.5 cm

© Gallery of painter Eric Bourdon
Lille, France, 2025



     With the acrylic paint “Vercingetorix”, the painter Eric Bourdon signs his very first painting on a skateboard !

     This hand-painted skateboard clearly gives visibility and presence to the absent par excellence, Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix, the king of the Arverni, but the absent from the painting, appears on the skateboard surface all the more gloriously because he has no human features, all the more manifest because he remains missing.

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Le Touquet – APAPCO Exhibition

Published on 2025-05-24 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Exhibitions, Painting, Photo, Sculpture  



     Eric Bourdon will be participating in the annual APAPCO art exhibition at the Palais des Congrès in Le Touquet from May 29 to June 1, 2025.

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     The association, founded in 1988 by Jean Révillion, is called the Association for the Promotion of Originally Created Plastic Artworks. Its goal is to introduce the public to contemporary works that are figurative, abstract, and surrealist, in harmony with the evolution of today’s art. Its headquarters is in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage.

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     From May 1 to June 1, 2025, painter Eric Bourdon will be participating in the annual exhibition of the Circle of Paris Artists (Cercle des Artistes de Paris), a short walk from the Château de Vincennes.

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     About a hundred painters, engravers, photographers, and sculptors will be exhibiting throughout the month of May under an elegant glass roof bathed in light in the idyllic setting of the Paris Floral Park.

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     Eric Bourdon takes part to the Salon of French Artists from February 19 to 22, 2025, within the Art Capital exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris. The exhibited painting will be : Normandy landscape with a small sunny stream.

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ART CAPITAL, MUST-SEE EXHIBITION IN EARLY 2025

 

     The Salon of French Artists inaugurates, as part of Art Capital, the calendar of major Parisian artistic events in 2025. Art Capital brings together 4 exhibitions : Salon Comparaisons, Salon of the Society of French Artists, Salon of Drawing and Watercolor Painting, and that of the Society of Independent Artists.

 

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