French artist Marie Ackers has gone beyond realism and tradition to capture a contemporary interpretation of animals. In her work, Marie deconstructs the movement, stripped down to pure lines, simplifying the shapes and identifying the dynamic and the rhythms of the lines to produce contemporary and distinctively elegant sculpture -inextricably associated with but yet completely independent of reality.
Her inspiration comes from various sources from the 19th century movement “French animalier” to the simplicity and purity of Brancusi’s work, the shapes and presence of Henry Moore sculptures, the sharp and clean lines of Calder metal sculptures as well as Pompom, Lynn Chadwick, architecture old and modern.
"The simplicity is the complexity solved."- Brancusi