Narcisse Tordoir
It would be naïve not to acknowledge that our society is a complex situation; a web of relations between people. Personally, I've always seen painting as an interface. . .
Narcisse Tordoir, Allan Kaprow: Art As Life via Kunsthalle Bern, 2007
The oeuvre of Narcisse Tordoir (1954, Belgium) might be described as 'spatial painting', using a bold and intriguing, but realistic visual language. They’re stories full of bravado, simultaneously subtle and assertive, interweaving romance with harsh reality, history with actuality, and madness with rationality. To Tordoir, painting is an act; a performance that continues to resonate. The elements in his work, recognizable in themselves, are combined with great formal precision, creating tension and opening up a semantic field of emotion, disrupting our ordinary ways of seeing and consistently throwing the viewer off balance.
