Works available5
StylesSurrealism
Yves Argue
Montréal, Canada
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2001
Yves Argue communicates personal beliefs and narratives through an iconography of surreal animals, human forms, and rich symbolism in paintings and sculptures. His works disentangle the societal forces of gender, religion, and beauty from the bodies onto which they are imposed, examining how these pressures contort the physical in pursuit of the metaphysical. The warped animals in Argue’s work reveal memories of compulsion, resentment, and intimacy, suggesting how the body and mind must adapt to endure hardship. These creatures, steeped in cultural connotation, are distorted to heighten the q...
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