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The artist
After
studying at the Beaux Arts and Conservatoire, Michel Bordage began
an apprenticeship in decorative ironwork, which would serve as the
foundations for his artistic research. From 1972, he began to explore
wood, metal and stone through sculpture
and set about integrating formal research and the creation of pure
matter, via a totally original approach. His first exhibitions, firstly
in the Middle East and then in Greece and Cyprus, revealed his true
vocation: to rediscover, by sculpting molten matter, what he would
call the "memory of matter". After 1987, esthetic expression
gave way to a desire to recreate and convey, in both his paintings and
sculptures,
this memory of matter without ever fixing it. Michel BORDAGE exhibits
alongside CALDER, BEN, DEBRE and WEISBUCH... Faithful to his artistic
quest, he has devoted the last few years to numerous exhibitions in
France, the Middle East, Switzerland and Japan, and been associated
with some of the greatest artistic figures such as APPEL, ARTUNG,
CHRISTO, DALI, KLEE and TINGUELY... His friendship with Olivier LAPIDUS
is the meeting of two unique creators around the theme of life and
the memory of matter. With this coming together, Michel BORDAGE has
developed a new artistic language whose expression is the creation
of original fabrics with Hermès and LAPIDUS Haute
Couture
collections... a creative race where art transcends technique to create
new spaces. |
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