Sun Thief
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Legoueix workshop.
With its label signed by the artist, No. 5/6.
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, same concerns around light (and shadow) as in "les armes de la lumière" (and as in Matégot): a classic cartoon by André Borderie.
Bibliography:
Cat. Expo. André Borderie “for the man simply”, Angers, Musée Jean Lurçat and Contemporary Tapestry Museum, 1998
Cat. Expo. André Borderie and Aubusson tapestry, Aubusson, Manufacture Saint-Jean, 2018
