Critical Writings
Marc Hérissé Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot, Auction House, Paris. January 1993
Exhibiting for the first time in Paris, this artist who is non other than daughter of the famous
Venezuelan painter Hector Poleo proposes here a lovely collection of paintings and works on paper. With symbolic economy, both in the dominion of effects and of colour, this young woman recreated a whole poetical universe with primitive, almost rupestrian, matters, full of imagination and seduction, magic sometimes.
Laurence Pythoud Revue L’OEIL Nro 447. 1992-1993 Lausanne, Switzerland
…”but what is striking above all in Alexandra Poleo’s painting is the luminosity coming out of it: it literally radiates, no matter what chromatic gamut is used, and immerses the viewer in a contemplation necessarily inscribed in the duration”…
Jeanine Warnod Le Figaro 1992
Alexandra Poleo create mythical images. Oedipus and Antigone float in the oneiric space of the artisrt, born in Venezuela and living in Paris. The colours of South America and European culture live together in a climate of mystery.
Patricia Oranin 1992, Paris
…” this introspective setting starting from a work on memory resounds like a dialogue with the past. Symbolically projected on the canvas, it reveals the meanders of the unconscious through an “act” in the theatrical sense of the word…Alexandra Poleo’s imaginary work seems to wish ton flee from the decoration in a floating hieraticism”…
Roberto Guevara El Nacional (AICA’s member: Association internationale des critiques d’ art). Curator and former museum Director. 1991
…”This exhibition has its sap, meaty surrealism, American archaeology, poetic transmutations and references to a culture that continuously links contexts from all continents in a decided option for the mythical man”.
Celita Calcaño El Nacional 1993
… In the limits of figuration and abstraction, beings in levitation introduce us into Alexandra poleo’s oneiric universe, where poetry and humanism are the access centers to the painting.
Carlos Maldonado Bourgouin (AICA’ s member: Association internationale des critiques d’ art). For the exhibition Encounters’s catalogue, Durban Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela).
Within the artistic currents that leave traces , surrealism call particular attention.It was and it is this moment of Art in general the one that approaches nearest to the hispanoamerican men’s feeling- falsely labeled as “ latinoamerican”-.To this structure emerges the marvel and the magic world of Rufino Tamayo in wich flesh and spirit are bur one… Enclosed in the automation of many of the forms related by Alexandra Poleo in her spontaneous and emotional way there is a hint of the world of other artists apart from Tamayo such as Chagall, Carrá, Klee and Léger”…
Milagros Bello (AICA’s member: Association internationale des critiques d’ art). For the Exhibition MOONLIGHT ZOO’s catalogue, Curator’s Voice Art Project Gallery, Miami USA) 2010
Alexandra Poleo’s drawings take us to the invisible levels of the subconscious.
Her complex and hybrid figures resemble multiple forms and anthropomorphic entities
charged with infinite evocations of humans and animals. Poleo recreates wonders and sortileges from her prolific imaginary, giving birth to a gallery of magical beings…Her gestural drawings recall the freedom of the abstract expressionism of Pollock or Kandinsky”…