Sandstorm
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Legoueix workshop.
With its label signed by the artist, No. EA/2.
Circa 1970.
Initially a sculptor, using a variety of materials (steel, concrete, ceramics, ...), Borderie discovered his passion for tapestry in the 1950s, 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 in Aubusson, from which he resigned very quickly. He created nearly 500 painted, abstract cartoons, with simple shapes, degraded in a reduced color range, with large-stitch weaves.
Dynamic abstraction, chromatic range between orange and brown, abstract patterns playing on the plastic effects of light through the colors: a classic cartoon by André Borderie.
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
