Dominique Pollès, called Pollès, is a French sculptor born in Paris in 1945. He is considered as the inventor of "organic cubism".
Biography
Fascinated by anatomy, he studied medicine and also attended drawing classes at the Academy Charpentier. On 3 July 1966, he discovered sculpture by a friend and sculptor named Enzo Plazota. He said then: “overnight, as soon as I knew the form, I felt that I would give up everything for it.”
On 28 August 1970, he arrived in
Carrara, and has since lived in
Pietrasanta . A few years later, he created his own foundry and almost exclusively uses bronze for his works.
His creations in continuity to the tradition of Greek sculpture, are a short-circuit between
Brancusi's purity,
Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi- abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Moore produced ...
's figurative abstraction and
Modigliani's lines and forms.
Considered as the inventor of the "Organic Cubism", he is immediately identifiable while he is reinventing the interpretation of the fullness of flesh through a new and personal mythology.
Pollès and the Boccara gallery work in collaboration since 2014.
Monumental public works
* Argentan : Les jardins de la ville d'Argentan
* Cernay :
Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey
Museums
* 1976
** Museo d'Arte Moderno Milano, Italie.
**
Musée Rodin, Paris, France.
* 1986 – Musee Campredon – L'Isle- sur-la-Sorgue, France.
** Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, Etats-Unis.
** Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, collection acquired by the
Lowe Art Museum of Miami.
* 1988 – Musée du
Grand Palais
The Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées ( en, Great Palace of the Elysian Fields), commonly known as the Grand Palais (English: Great Palace), is a historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located at the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arro ...
, Paris, France.
* 1989 – Palais Esterhazy, Vienne, Austria.
* 1991 – Musée de Menton, Palais Carnolès, Menton, France.
* 1994 – Musée Despiau-Mont-de-Marsan, France.
** Museum of Vero Beach, Vero Beach, United-States.
** Musée d' Issoire, Issoire, France.
** Musée de plein air Golf de l'Amirauté : en permanence 4 sculptures, Deauville, France.
* 2014 – Musée Bernard Boesch, Le Pouliguen, France
Bibliography
*1983 Catherine Ardin / Robert Pimenta, Être Antiquaire, p. 154 – édition Conflit !
*1986 Jacques Lamalle, L'Empereur de la Faim, p. 178 – édition Flamarion.
*1991 Palais Carnoles, Pollès, édition du Musée Municipal.
*1994 Marc Albouy, Du Titanic à Karnak, p. 324 – édition Dunod.
*1997 Giuliano Serafini, Pollès – Agàlmata, Calendario Polistampa
*1998 Pascallon, Pollès Centre Culturel d'Issoir
*2003 Sylvie Blin, Pollès – édition Polistampa, Italie
*2008
Michel Onfray
Michel Onfray (; born 1 January 1959) is a French writer and philosopher with a hedonistic, epicurean and atheist worldview. A highly-prolific author on philosophy, he has written over 100 books. His philosophy is mainly influenced by such thinke ...
, ''La vitesse des simulacres, les sculptures de Pollès'', édition Galilée
*2013 Martine Torrens Frandji, Michel Onfray Le Principe d'Incandescence, p. 254 à p. 261 – édition Grasset
*2014 Tim Perceval, Parc Samsara, – édition Celestun
External links
* http://www.labaule.fr/musee-bernard-boesch
Boccara's Gallery exhibition of PollèsExtract of a French documentary from Arte
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people