BERNARD BORDENAVE

Bernard Bordenave was born in Southern France, an artist who works with photography, sculpture, painting, and mixed media. He studied art in Paris, being interested in eastern culture; he decided to move to Taiwan in 1980. He worked as in-house photographer in a few of nature magazines. And his works are mostly focus on city culture scene and still photography.

In city culture scene, he is good at capture the essence of everyday life, such as abstract graffiti walls or mottled old doors and windows. His still photography is based on antiques he has collected on his travels across the world. Using the balance of their shapes, colors, lines, texture, and cultural significance, he is able to convey his artistic sensibility.

In another field, he also creates wooden reliefs and collages using ready-made objects and wooden board. The style of his work is very minimal and is structured in the rhythm. The composition of how he puts images and symbols together are very subtle. The concept of yin and yang is often shown in his work, which creates the dialogue between full and void. He also puts a lot of attention when working on the texture, and the balancing of colors. With a soft gray tone, multi-layer colored and repeated pondering, until the gentle and elegant. In his art, it not difficult to find that it blends Western geometric abstraction with Eastern aesthetics. His work is very poetic and with a hint of Zen.