D’or et d’ombre (of gold and shade)
Tapestry woven in the Cartron workshop.
With signed label, n°1/1.
Circa 1970.
Originally a sculptor exploiting very diverse materials (steel, concrete, clay…), Borderie came to tapestry with immense enthusiasm in the 1950’s with the weaving of his first cartoon in 1957. Receiving encouragement from Denise Majorel, he was awarded the Grand Prix National de la Tapisserie in 1962. In 1974 he was appointed as director at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs at Aubusson but he resigned from this post shortly thereafter. He designed over 500 painted cartoons, abstracts using simple shapes, shading in a limited palette of colours and weaving with gros points.
Here we find the same preoccupations with light (and shadow) as in ‘les armes de la lumière’ (and as in Matégot’s work). Borderie was also woven by workshops other than Legoueix in Aubusson, Rado, Daquin and, more confidentially, Chartron in Angers (who wove Jorj Morin in particular).
Bibliography :
Exhibition catalogue André Borderie « pour l’homme simplement », Angers, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, 1998
Exhibition Catalogue André Borderie et la tapisserie d’Aubusson, Aubusson, Manufacture Saint-Jean, 2018
