Eric Bourdon

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Eric Bourdon (Born in 1979) is a French painter and writer.

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[edit] Biography

After scientific and philosophical studies, he turned back to painting in 1998.

His many works embrace both the figurative tradition and modern abstraction. What they have in common are vivid colors and unpremeditated pencil strokes, expressive of raw enthusiasm in the "art brut" or "Outsider Art" manner.

Critics have pointed out the narcissistic or regressive aspects of his paintings, while noting their function as social revealers and the feeling of joie de vivre they convey. [1]

Eric Bourdon wrote a book of playful philosophy in 2000[2] about artistic creation in practice. He also wrote a long article for the magazine 'Concepts 1' (same publisher), comparing the first ethnological discoveries of young Ron Hubbard, later the founder of the Church of Scientology, to Zarathustra by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.[3]

Six years later he published a dark psychological thriller, "Les Voleurs d'Enfant" (Kidnappers) [4] depicting a cult against the cults. Although set in the United States (Boston), it is a dig at the French associations claiming religious neutrality such as ADFI, CCMM (or ICSA for the US) and opposition to cults while behaving exactly in the ways of the cults they denounce. [5]

[edit] Books

  • Hors-sujets, ou l'art du néant et rebonds philosophiques ("Beside the point, or the art of philosophical nothingness and bounces"), Sils Maria asbl, feb 2000, philosophy, 'New possibilities of existence' collection.
  • "Introduction to Nietzsche's "Also Spratch Zarathustra", in Concepts [1], Sils Maria asbl, August 2000, pp 91-108.
  • Novel Les Voleurs d'Enfant (The child thiefs) - a cult against the cults, La Méduse, Lille, August 2006, psychological thriller.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Paul Masquelier - Eléments (#119), January 2006.
  2. ^ Sils-Maria (Belgium) publishers
  3. ^ Publisher page
  4. ^ 'Editions de la Méduse' (Lille, France)
  5. ^ Official presentation page of the novel.
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