BIOGRAPHIE

Born in 1961 at Châtenay-Malabry in France, Sylvie Poinsot brought her sensitivity to bear through the drama workshops she attended for many years, and through browsing exhibitions with intense concentration, which she has continued to do her whole life.

In 1997, she attended life classes with Jean Claude Athané, a sculptor and former pupil of Zadkine, before launching herself for several years into exploring the use of charcoal and pastel, either with live models or drawing on her imagination.

In 2006, she added painting to her artistic spectrum and began an intense investigation, painting numerous expressionist portraits, full of emotional intensity.

In 2008, she attended the studio run by Yves Devaux-Veeska, founder of the “Peindre en liberté” (Paint in Freedom) foundation, who then kept a kindly eye on her throughout 2010, as she explored painting as part of her personal artistic development.

It was in 2012, following an exhibition in Paris of works by Louis Soutter, that she began her exploration of drawing with Indian ink, once again for portraits.

During this same period, she attended writing workshops, and a first anthology of writings called “Portraits croisés” (Parallel portraits), on some of her paintings was published in September 2014. A second collection of writings, “À la volée” (On the Move), came out in July 2015. Lastly, a short story entitled “Parenthèse:Éclairage sur une folie ordinaire” (In Parenthesis: Shedding Light on an Ordinary Madness)was published by L’Harmattan in September 2016.

2016 marked a turning point for Sylvie Poinsot as, after meandering through the many complexities of figurative and semi-figurative art, she chose to explore a new artistic niche: lyrical abstraction.

Since  2016 :  a new artistic avenue

Having meandered through the many complexities of figurative and semi-figurative art, Sylvie Poinsot returns to us with an entirely new artistic niche: lyrical abstraction. Following her first timid, cautious steps, the artist has found her cruising speed along this new creative pathway, as she herself calls it. Movements are fluid and clean, no longer seeking to relate to any realistic projection. The artist’s legendary instinctive sensitivity powerfully maintains the indelible link that binds her to her medium. Luminous spontaneity this time, backed up by a whole new palette of colours. Pure, primary, primitive colours, that reveal simply and in full the inexhaustible passion of this ardent enthusiast of all-encompassing total art. She demonstrates her ability to harmonise the dissident harmonies of pure expressionism: the eternal duality between heart and reason. A fine expression of pictorial, chromatic freedom and speculation. Sylvie Poinsot reveals her full artistic potential once again. Her new creative pathway is undoubtedly worth the detour.

Up until 2015: uncompromising expressionism

Coming from the world of theatre, Sylvie Poinsot has not, however, renounced her former allegiances, as she has transposed theatrical elements and visual arts into a passionate fusion, as a real profession of faith. Character and masks are central to her concerns; faces are sketched with great bursts of vivid, febrile colours. An expressionism that is entirely subject to her inner visions, and to the tearing apart of the walls of her heart. 

The artist acknowledges several different sources of influence in the development of her art. I find that in Sylvie Poinsot’s work, one perceives the same arterial turbulence, the same uncompromising candour and frenetic lust for painting as can be seen bursting from the works of Basquiat.  Although the two artists’ works are very different, the same visceral wrench radiates from their respective work.   

The only difference is that in Sylvie Poinsot’s work, there is no distraction, no invasive pictorial environment. The spotlight is trained on the subject alone, leaving them bare, in all their vulnerability and existential fragility. The artist works with oils and acrylics on canvas, and with dry pastel and ink on paper, to generously offer personal works with great depth and candour. Creative energy in pure state.

While her acrylic works are made using a broad colour palette and with great exuberance, her pastels are, on the other hand, created using a few very steady strokes. With just a few lines and movements, the artist suggests portraits filled with an intense expressive quality. The look in the eyes is particularly important in her works. It brings the subject’s soul to life, stirring with the thrill of the artist’s unique and staggering personal expressionism. Sylvie Poinsot has an extensive output available to view. An output that will not leave anyone indifferent and that will undoubtedly appeal to enthusiasts of powerful works.

Martine Bouchard-Chroniquart(Québec)-2012-2015

Group exhibition

Personnal exhibition

Contemporary art magazines and books

2016 :

• Catalogue du «1° Prix internationale Leonard de Vinci» , organisé par Salvatore Russo et Francesco-Saverio Russo- 29 Janvier 2016 Florence
• Art international contemporary Magazine, dirigé par Salvatore Russo-Janv/Fevr. 2016

2014 :

• EFFETTO ARTE «Portrait for great Art’s masters» numéro de septembre/Octobre 2014 : Revue d’art dirigée par le critique d’art italien Paolo Levi
• «Protagonisti dell’arte» : Livre d’Art du XIXème siècle à nos jours. Juin 2014-A Editore-Palerme
• «Artisti Internazionali all’Artexpo di New York» : Catalogue d’art contemporain -Artexpo New York -Avril 2014
• The New Collector Book 2014 by Tchera Niyego and Basak Malone-USA

2013 :

• OVER ART magazine « Premio Michelangelo» numéro de septembre/Octobre 2013 : Revue d’art contemporain.
• EFFETTO ARTE « Nello segno della figurazione » numéro de septembre/Octobre 2013 : Revue d’art dirigée par le critique d’art italien Paolo Levi
• « I SEGNALATI » , catalogue international d’art contemporain de Salvatore Russo, mai 2013. A Editore-Palerme

2012 :

• Le Contre-Annuaire Volume1 -11-13 Editions, Paris

Price obtained

2016 :

• Prix Leonard De Vinci» , Florence (Italie)

2014 :

• Prix Michelangelo , Florence (Italie)
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Critical text –Biennale des Nations-Mars 2018

“To the Wise interprétation of art, your creativity, a perfect combination of harmony and light, your ability to capture the sensitivity of the soul.”

E.A. EDITORE- Biennale des Nations-Du 16 au 19 mars 2018-Venise

Critical text : Sandro Serradifalco -Sept. 2014

“The dynamic background made of a mix of soft colors, contrasts with the chromatic choice used for the face of the subject ; a painting full of meaning, a painting that wants to shout out something through the expression in stops and starts sad and lost and in stops and starts euphoric and galvanized. An informal atwork characterized by the unique touch of the artist.”

« Effetto Arte» Revue d’art contemporain dirigée par Paolo Levi. Septembre/Octobre 2014

Critical text : Paolo Levi-italian art critic -Août 2014

“Un opera inquietante, che si collega alla pittura espressionista del novecento tedesco, in particolare a quella di Emile Nolde. Ma questa pittrice va oltre, rivelando una vena poetica che si esalta nei forti contrasti segnici e cromatici.”

«Protagonisti dell’ Arte 2014» Dal XIX secolo ad oggi - Paolo Levi

Critical text : Salvatore Russo-italian art critic-Avril 2014

“Sylvie Poinsot élabora una pittura molto espressiva. Negli occhi dei personaggi ritratti si puo leggere tutto chio che hanno nell’anima .

Un’anima colorata. Un’anima alla ricerca della felicita perduta.

Il suo agire cromaticro la rende la pittrice della luce.

Una luce che sovrasta le tenebre e si fa portavoce di sentimenti reali. Una segnica non legata all’iperrealismo bensi alla comunicazione che decodifica in maniera corretta l’agire umano.”

“Sylvie Poinsot Works on a really expressive painting. In portrayed characters eyes we can read their souls. A colored soul. A soul in search of the lost happiness. The colors she uses gave her the nickname of « the painter of the light ».

A light that dominates the darkness becoming the mouthpiece of real feelings. A language that is not linked to hyperrealism but to the communication that explains the human actions.”

Critix text: Adelinda Allegretti – Mars 2014

“Prima di arrivare al giro di boa della mostra, dove il dramma lentamente si stempera giungendo persino a strappare al visitatore qualche sorriso, va citata l’opera di Sylvie Poinsot, Sans titre (2011). Un volto che sembra liquefarsi sotto il peso dell’esistenza, la bocca trasformata in una smorfia. Solo gli occhi mantengono una fredda lucidità. È il ritratto della consapevolezza della drammaticità della vita umana.”

“Before reaching the exhibition’s turning point, where drama slowly tones down, winning a few smiles out of the visitor, one need to mention Sylvie Poinsot’s Sans titre (Untitled, 2011). Here is a face that appears to melt under the weight of existence, the mouth reduced to a grimace. Only the eyes maintain a cold lucidity. This is the portrait of the awareness of the drama of human existence.”

Adelinda Allegretti- « Con i fiordi negli occhi. » Omaggio all'Urlo di Munch Mars-Avril 2014

Critix text : Salvatore Russo-italian art critic-Mai 2013

“Volti che diventano la più fedele testimonianza dei pensieri dell’essere umano. Volti che confessano le loro verità. Volti che hanno la stessa forza evocativa dell’urlo di Munch. Volti che vengono dipinti dall’abile mano dell’artista Sylvie Poinsot.

L’artista nelle sue opere pone grande attenzione alla mimica faciale delle sue figure. Mimica che è l’espressione di cio che in quel momento la figura rappresentata pensa. Sentimenti ed emozioni. Il volto diventa una sorta di diaro autobiografico sul quale scrivere i propri stati d’animo. La tecnica utilizzata è molto singolare. Non vi è iperrealismo e le figure hanno contorni labili e appositamente non definiti, per dare maggiore importanza al concetto stesso che vogliono esprimere. La cromia in tutte le opere è decisamente straordinaria, andando oltre il commune vedere delle cose.”

Critic text : Martine Bouchard-Chroniquart-Québec-2012

«Sylvie Poinsot est une artiste expressionniste de la nouvelle génération. En toute liberté, elle s’exprime par la peinture, l’encre sur papier et le pastel sec. Les seules lois, auxquelles l’artiste obéit, sont celle de la spontanéité et de l’absolu, dans le processus de création.

L’artiste peint des personnages, seuls sur scènes, épinglés sous le projecteur de son esprit, mis en valeur par une large palette de couleurs vibrantes et contrastées.

En toute simplicité, l’artiste se livre en même temps que ses sujets. Ses œuvres sont composées avec beaucoup de gestuels et d’élans larges et énergiques. Des couleurs franches et opaques s’opposent et se superposent, dans une fresque chromatique enivrante et obsédante.

De l’art sans compromis, une nature absolutiste et entière. Les pastels de l’artiste livrent moins de détails que ses acryliques. De quelques lignes, l’artiste tire le maximum d’intensité et de luminosité à propos de ses sujets. Des personnages, aux regards chargés de ses propres émotions et de ses mondes intérieurs. Une production aux œuvres puissantes et uniques, en son genre.

De belles toiles à découvrir, et à faire découvrir. De l’art simple et complexe, tout à la fois. Sylvie Poinsot, un nom à retenir.»

Martine Bouchard-Chroniquart 2012 (Québec)

Artist books

2016 :

• Parentheses: Éclairage sur une folie ordinaire (In Parenthesis: Shedding Light on an Ordinary Madness); Book by Sylvie Poinsot, published in September 2016 by Éditions l'Harmattan-Paris

2015 :

• « A la volée » : Recueil de textes courts aux Editions l’ATRT. Paris

2014 :

• “Portraits croisés” : Collection Eclats de lire-Atelier d’écriture de l’ATRT-Paris

(Textes et peintures)-Editions l’ATRT. Paris

2006 :

• “Dialogue avec la modèle” : (Pastels et textes)-Livre d’artiste

 2005 :

• “Interrogations et ruptures” : (Pastels et textes)-Livre d’artiste

Training and workshop

2016-2017 :   

• Cours de modèle vivant-ateliers de la Miroiterie-Paris avec Jean Claude Athané.

2006-2015 :  

• Atelier d’écriture avec Christine Tristan à l’ATRT-Paris 13

2010-2011 :               

• Atelier Yves Devaux Veeska.

2008 :  

• Cours de modèle vivant-ateliers de la Miroiterie –Paris avec Jean Claude Athané
• Atelier Yves Devaux Veeska, créateur de la fondation « Peindre en liberté »

1997-1998 :   

• Cours de modèle vivant-ateliers N.Poussin-Paris avec Jean Claude Athané.