88 cm

          Initially a sculptor who used a wide variety of materials (steel, concrete, ceramics, etc.), Borderie discovered a passion for tapestry in the 1950s, weaving his first cartoon in 1957. Encouraged by Denise Majorel, he was awarded the Grand Prix National de la Tapisserie in 1962. In 1974, he was appointed director of the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs d'Aubusson, from which he resigned very quickly. He produced nearly 500 painted cartoons, abstract, with simple shapes, graded in a reduced color range, with large-stitch weaves.   Dynamic abstraction, a color palette ranging from orange to brown, the same preoccupations with light (and shadow) as in "Les Armes de la Lumière" (and in Matégot's work): a classic design by André Borderie.   Bibliography: Exhibition catalog André Borderie "pour l'homme simplement" (For Man Alone), Angers, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, 1998 Exhibition catalog André Borderie et la tapisserie d'Aubusson (André Borderie and Aubusson Tapestry), Aubusson, Manufacture Saint-Jean, 2018