Sandstorm
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Legoueix workshop.
With its ribbon signed by the artist, No. EA/2.
Circa 1970.
First a sculptor, using the most diverse materials (steel, concrete, ceramics, ...), Borderie discovered a passion for tapestry in the 50s, having his first cartoon woven in 1957. Encouraged by Denise Majorel, he received the National Grand Prize for Tapestry in 1962. In 1974, he was appointed director of the National School of Decorative Arts of Aubusson, from which he resigned very quickly. He produced nearly 500 painted cartoons, abstract, with simple shapes, degraded in a reduced color range, with large-stitch weavings.
Dynamic abstraction, chromatic range between orange and brown, abstract models playing on the plastic effects of light through colors: a classic André Borderie cartoon.
Bibliography:
Cat. Expo. André Borderie 'for the man simply', Angers, Jean Lurçat Museum and Contemporary Tapestry, 1998
J.J. and B. Wattel, André Borderie and the Aubusson tapestry, Louvre Victoire Editions, 2018
