Stéphane Bordarier's Performative Painting Process

Stéphane Bordarier rejected the prevailing Figuration libre movement of the 1980s to pursue a focused investigation of color and colored surfaces. His technique involves applying fresh glue to the canvas and then quickly spreading paint with a spatula, with the entire process constrained by the drying time of the glued surface. This temporal limitation aligns his work with performance art. His persistent emphasis on color and surface places him within a lineage of painting that spans from Italian frescoes to modernist theories.