William Vicats achetant à bon prix... (2020) Painting by Eric Bourdon

“William Vicats buying a luxury Nepalese cement pepper shaker at a good price. » (Full title)

Painting by contemporary French painter Eric Bourdon in acrylic paint on linen canvas stretched on a wooden frame. Varnished work ready to hang.

The luxury pepper pot by William Vicats is obviously only the paradigm of contemporary aesthetics related to the subtle expression of its post-modern contextual strangeness. Whether William Vicats buys it, his luxury pepper shaker, at a good price or at a high price, it doesn't matter to us, as long as he buys it: it is the guarantee of its value as an object-phenomenon facing to the critical investigation of the consciousness of being-there.

Because in fact, what is a luxury pepper shaker made from Nepalese cement? For the common man it is obviously just a common table utensil. The very implicit dimension of any hermeneutic transcendentality escapes him entirely, his consciousness only perceiving it as a trivial occasion for uncontrolled sneezing. The aesthete, on the contrary, senses the peppery scent of an anthropological horizon marked by the surprising but harmonious fusion of the "science of beauty" and the ontopoietic principles of taste as defined by the eclectic doctrine of the school of Luxembourg theorists of 17th century.

[English]

"William Vicats buying a luxury Nepalese cement pepper pot at a good price." (Full title)

Painting by French contemporary artist painter Eric Bourdon with acrylic art paint on linen canvas stretched on a wooden support frame. Varnished work ready to hang.

The context of the presentation of William Vicats’ luxury Nepalese cement pepper pot affects the perception of the buying process of any pepper pot. In this regard, it is the paradigm of the pepper pot as a part of visual arts and art marketing that creates a series of consequential problems!…

Whether William Vicats buys it or not, even at a good price, ultimately doesn't really matter to us. Because basically, any luxury Nepalese cement pepper pot, as well as any other object presented in a contemporary museum context, is liked more, bought more often in contemporary art shops, and also rated more phenomenologically valuable than when presented in the sterile laboratory context to a consciousness that is reluctant to the psychoanalytic conception of the unconscious.

[Spanish]

French painter Eric Bourdon's art with acrylic paint, tensile linoleum on a wooden base bastidor. Obra barnizada lista para colgar.

[Deutsch]

Acrylic display of French Malers Eric Bourdon, with the Leinenleinwand on the Holzträgerrahmen gespannt. Lackierte Arbeit fertig zum Aufhängen.

© Eric Bourdon

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