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The Incredible Lightness of Being

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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…

     Such a position doesn’t express a dismissal of the question of being as much as the true condition of our access to it. Indeed, if this is the case, it’s simply because one can only approach the problem of being through the problem of its manifestation on the canvas, and by tracing it back, ever more incredibly and ever more lightly, whereas if one starts from the question of being, it then becomes a purely abstract concept.

     Thus, painting is only able to deal with the problem of being, that is to say, to access its ultimate meaning, on the condition that it does not begin with the abstract question of being but rather accesses it through its light and incredible pictorial manifestations…

   L’incroyable légèreté de l’être