Stéphane Bordarier's Recent Paintings at Musée Fabre

The Musée Fabre in Montpellier presents recent works by Stéphane Bordarier, focusing on paintings from 2007 to 2009. The exhibition highlights the evolution of his practice, notably the large quadriptychs from 2008 that reduce color to red and blue, applied in a single gesture and then juxtaposed or split. This process of division continues in the 2009 series 'les r les carrés onds / les ca les ronds rrés,' shown at Galerie Jean Fournier in Paris, where forms become more rounded. Bordarier's assembled paintings, influenced by Robert Ryman's realism, explore what constitutes painting through internal shifts and temporal development. The isolated works derive color from the red-blue mixtures of the polyptychs, echoing his earlier 'Violet de Mars' series. The latest series is titled 'les ronds et les carrés.' A concurrent exhibition runs at Galerie Hambursin-Boisanté in Montpellier until March 13.