_PNG.png){kind=small}
Ines de Poligny
UNITED KINGDOM
_p.png)
“Ines work to try to break the artificial social constructs, looking to bring back individuality, freshness and authenticity in combination with the laws of nature.”
Ines de Poligny is an artist of mixed French, Italian and Argentine extraction, born in 1973. She completed a degree in Design and attended Art courses with the Italian surrealist Mara Marini, and abstract artist Marco Otero. Her current place of residence is Ascot, United Kingdom.
The Crying Lambs | Acrylic
$1,700
‘The Crying Lambs’ represents laborers returning after a day’s work, showing a mix of different friendships, fatigue and melancholy.
When very young she already had an inclination for art, painting her first works as a teenager. During the first ten years of her career, she exhibited in the United States and Latin America. She then started exhibiting in Europe in the Carrousel du Louvre (Paris), the European Museum of Modern Art MEAM (Madrid) and several worldwide Biennales and Art Fairs. Her work can be found in private collections in several countries of North and South America as well as Europe.
Temperance | Fiberglass
$1,600
‘Temperance’ or in Spanish 'Templanza', is an example of a healthy conscious mind working, alongside the laws of nature, both with solemnity and resistance. What looks like the trunk of a solid tree, gives a sense of security and self-control, surrounded by the waters of fluid thought. It is a metaphor for nature’s laws and our necessary respect for them.
As an artist, Ines de Poligny is concerned with mainly communicating four themes; Environment and Emotions represented in an abstract way, Human Consciousness and Evolution interpreted with classical realism. When she combines these four elements, she intends to bring the freedom of the abstract against the controlled formality of the figurative. Sometimes Ines will also combine archaic and folk elements, to evoke origins while also contrasting them to new expressions. With this aim objects such as arrows, reeds and feathers are displayed or reproduced to illustrate an ancestral evolution.
“Contemporary and ancestral, dynamic and still, exuberant and simplistic, her work plays on the edges of contrasts.”
A variety of sub-themes derive from these four themes, especially with the artist’s main focus: Evolution and the Human Conscious. Evolution is represented in subjects matters including cloning, isolation, origins and conception. An example of the artist’s representation of Human Evolution can be found in her works on labyrinths. They meander between the loss of oneself and the need to get out of them to find oneself again.
Creverchetta | Photoshop
$3,300
‘Crevercheta’ is a sort of Human Emblem of Human Consciousness and Evolution of all humankind. The vertebral column brings origin and humanness to a social cooperation and the blues represent consciousness itself. The interaction creates the structure of the composition.
‘Corazon’ represents the passion and suffering of a heart. Its central cavity is an open invitation to love and suffer.
Corazon | Acrylic
$1,300
However, the artist works with the theme of Human Consciousness in several different ways. One is how we see ourselves through the eyes of society: Evidencing how we transform our free natural existence to an artificial social construction, compelled to comply with collective standards of a fabricated existence in a fantasy world that does not exist in nature.
“Her earlier influence, and her first stylistic love, was Surrealism, and Ines has incorporated some of its deliberate techniques of figurative definition into her creative process, along with the freedom of the abstract that also characterizes her present work.”
“Working with bodies of forms where lines of perimeters tend to ripple or zigzag and repeat, spiralling outwards like an echo, Ines leaves a distinctive mark.”
Environment and Emotions are mainly expressed with the abstract. The landscapes illustrate a cohesion of Environment, Human Consciousness and Evolution, always integrating ancestral ethnic roots to the contemporary Evolution of Humanity. Emotions, as untouchable feelings are treated both with abstract contemporary expression, and through figurative anatomy, which highlight their origin, fragility and mortality.
Laberinto - Devenires | Photoshop
$5,400
‘Laberintos’ or Labyrinth is a landscape representing the history and evolution of life, with turning points that change its course, represented by the twisting planes. The use of close and distant backgrounds represents various aspects of private and public life. The labyrinth’s meandering structures communicate the loss of oneself and the need to get out of these labyrinths to find oneself again.
The artist sometimes exaggerates the focus of a certain image or concept thus bringing it closer, magnifying it and provoking a response. Some of the composition’s foundational traces are left unfinished as a witness to the images’ impulsive origin and fragility, born from the ethereal in a single line, then gaining decisive form.
Francis Bacon | Acrylic
$1,800
‘Francis Bacon’ is an artwork honoring the Irish-born British figurative painter Francis Bacon.
The artist’s visual structures come from her imagination and their interpretation so that they may merge with the reality that surrounds us and become the revelation of a hidden experience. Her expressions of the natural world and humanity at large, become a lively and emblematic composition of evolution. Her imagery is both contemporary and very actual.
The diptych ‘Meeting’ and ‘Relax’ is an abstract landscape representing a human encounter and evolution. Its ‘bony’ textures speak to our ancestral history and hip bone imagery represents a very intrinsic encounter. Two geometric squares represent individuals meeting, and a single square is a couple at ease and becoming one. A force of instinct and ancestry reigns the artwork.
Diptych 'Meeting' and 'Relax' | Photoshop
$5,100
“Ines represents Environment in her ‘Abstract Landscapes’ that seem to manifest the perfection of solitude, where vacuum is necessary to recover strength.”
Ancestros II | Acrylic
$1,300
‘Ancestors II’ represents ancestry and human survival at a very basic level. The canvas is round, chosen to show that survival responses come back and never go away. A suggestion of animal teeth and insinuations of blood express the aggression that fighting for survival can sometimes require.
The artist’s career has earned her public recognition, the result of a strong technical background. Visitors appreciate the firmness of her stroke and the symbols that are concealed within her paintings.
‘Life Experience’ represents memories and experiences that the mind keeps bringing up, reminiscing emotions through the different senses.
Life Experience | Acrylic
$4,080
Ines’ artistic mission is an attempt to ask ourselves questions about what we are doing to our Environment and to our Evolution. To criticize a world that is splitting apart from nature while recognizing the health and beauty of creation.
Vivra' | Photoshop
$3,700
Vivra' represents origins illustrated by a spine composition.
“Colourful abstractions are thoroughly worked by the artist, creating a large contrast between the rich detailed forms that stand out from a quiet background.”
Not a solo artist yet? Subscribe to our solo exhibitions at TERAVARNA and share your art with the world!