Tango is a painting built on tension, movement, and intense emotion. Against a black background, an expressive dance of forms unfolds – dynamic arcs and a red, irregular plasma create a visual trace of energy that seems to linger after the motion has ended. This is not a depiction of dance, but its echo – an emotional impulse captured in color and gesture.
The work was inspired by the memory of a couple dancing tango in one of the city squares of Buenos Aires. Yet Bernard Boujol does not reproduce reality; he filters it through his own sensitivity, creating an abstract record of a powerful, sensual experience.
The contrast of red and black emphasizes the drama of the composition, while the physicality of the brushwork – spontaneous yet precise – adds tension, passion, and expression. Tango reflects the artist’s characteristic approach: gesture and color become vessels of experience, and painting becomes a space for emotions that need no words.