Charles’ leading method consists in undertaking a proactive path that goes beyond description, which method is based on timelessness and universality. Charles’ approach is somewhat close to philosopher Goethe’s leitmotiv to build a better future using magnified elements from the past. Charles strongly believes that Africa still has lots to offer to mankind trough art. The artists’ work is wrapped into a mighty symbolic aesthetics that is always very refined. The artist also dusts off countless references to other civilizations in the world, and to the past. Through an elegant alliance between his French and Gabonese cultures, baroque and tribal art, from mystical Bantu masking to chiaroscuro, Charles intends to create a meditative and fundamental mythology of magnitude.

The pillars of Charles Bourdette's artistic production rest essentially on an eloquent play on vital paradoxes. These paradoxical concepts, which one might automatically think they’re contrary, are rarely understood by the artist in their antagonistic alternatives, rather the artist most often uses them by associating them in complementary pairs. This is how trivial and serious, motionlessness and movement, the spontaneous and the planned, the personalization of his artistic production and his universalist ambition, the religious and the secular (The work speaks to the initiate and the layman.), sound and silence, light and darkness, the occult and the unveiled, symmetry and asymmetry, are articulated in his work.

Charles Bourdette is inspired by a variety of mythologies in the world, but he also does a philosophical work by meditating on the definition and echo of many simple words though conceptual.

This analytical work puts on him the burden to translate the fruit of his pondering into an artistic language, whether it is by painting on a canvas (which is for the moment his main mean of expression) or by other means he’s already planning to use.

The artist’s production is characterized by the search for a constant universal truth (hence the use of sacred geometry and the permanent search for solid and constant links between mythological and civilizational elements throughout the world). Charles work is also defined by a quest for pictorial harmony (positions of the human and non-human represented elements, choice of colors, geometry of the scene, etc.) as well as immutability and timelessness with the predominance of nudity.

It should therefore be remembered that Charles Bourdette uses the conclusions of his ponderings to achieve a relevance that transcends both eras and cultural borders.