Biography of Ignace Maes

Igance Maes is a skilled photographer, a talented painter, and was for a long time teacher.

"In my work is to see no clear observability, no reflect any reality. Rather it is a story with "still missing doctor". The compositions are of intrinsic thoughts and memories. It is an unraveling of Poland and contradictions. "

The colour palette is monochrome, introverted. Work no well-defined idea to advance. It is a spontaneous, makeshiftly suitable story where forms and matter remain subject to the attitude of the moment. Let go and yet controlled and balanced. Areas of tension of unrest and rest alternate in often asymmetric compositions. Shadowy and sharp shapes or figures play a game of retired or striking presence. Notwithstanding the abstraction, the human figure play a role in my work. Sometimes he is strongly pronounced, then again vague present in a quasi tranquil relationship with himself. The man stripped of his fringes and environment, universal and timeless. The double personality, or the eternal struggle between sense and reason?