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PAUL YVES POUMAY - Belgium
PAINTER SCULPTOR
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About His Art
Paul Yves Poumay was born on June 15, 1969, in Verviers, Belgium. His artistic talent was revealed in 1986 when he won first prize in the photography competition organized by AGFA. His work was exhibited at the Museum of Photography in Charleroi.
After graduating from the School of Business Administration at the University of Liège, Belgium, he completed his studies at the University of Santander in Spain. In 1994, he won the prize awarded by the Royal Association of Licentiates, Doctors and Masters in Economics, Management and Social Sciences of the University of Liège; a prize awarded to the most outstanding student of his class.
He developed his financial career mainly in the worlds of banking and insurance, both in Belgium and in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
In 1995, his creative economist spirit was highlighted by the magazine "The Argus of Insurance in Paris", where he published the results of an econometric study that enabled him to create the "Belgian Insurance Barometer".
He spent about 25 years repressing his artistic side, until a day in 2011 when an unstoppable need to express and create burst back into his life.
A sculpture catalogue was published in 2012.
He published various short essays on society, mainly in the Belgian financial newspapers L’ECHO and LA LIBRE BELGIQUE.
In 2017, he founded with friends the NPO AWI - Art World Institute - where, through the universal Art-symbol bringing people together across space and time, the collective will try to show that submission to financial industrialization—responsible for the violent destruction of resources and the exploitation of the weakest—represents a historical mistake that humanity must correct if it wishes to sustain a peaceful and balanced earthly evolution for all living beings. The creation of the NPO AWI was followed by the publication of a carte blanche in L’ECHO: "art to redesign finance."
In 2018, he created his online art gallery.
Free, provocative, raw, utopian, he expresses his indignation—linked to the power granted to the possession of money—by asserting his status as the world’s most expensive contemporary artist. He translates his questions through an offbeat expressionism, from the colorful to the darkest. A self-taught instinctive artist who, through art, defies the world of finance and challenges the foundations of our organizations. He provokes reactions by denouncing, in particular, the societal aberrations we are witnessing.
The world’s most expensive contemporary artist
Paul Yves Poumay is the creator of the sculpture “The Return of Don Quixote”, valued at more than two billion euros. The profits generated by the sale of this work are intended solely for sponsorship and basic research within the NPO AWI - www. AWI. Fund
His “belgitude” allows him certain eccentricities, including claiming the title of the world’s most expensive contemporary art artist—a title he asserts publicly and peacefully. He sees no mental illness or arrogance in this, but rather a process imbued with deep humility toward our humanity. Indeed, without any paradox in this statement, he pleads, like many others, for a financial deindustrialization of our society. He does not come from nobility or a line of wealthy industrialists, but he wants, through his art, to act within society by using a financial lever. For him, philanthropy should not be reserved only for those who are wealthy by nature or for other “successful businessmen”, but for all those who want to work for the common good. The ultimate goal of his existence is a firm desire to improve the world in which we currently live. He is one of those artists who would like to contribute to the progress of humanity, and he has absolutely no complex about the price of his works. He is not making fun of anyone by doing so, and he has never intended to think of himself as better than anyone else. He is simply more expensive than the others; it is a strictly personal choice that implies no value judgment on his part. If you visit his site www.paul-yves-poumay.com, you will find that the works are often accompanied by comments and explanations, with donation proposals for many noble causes or other commendable actions. He does not seek personal profit. To attest to this lack of profit, but the need to have finance, he created in 2017 an ASBL “Art World Institute” (AWI), www.awi.foundation
Education
1987-1993 Master’s degree in Business Administration-Finance-University of Liège, Belgium
1991-1991 Erasmus-Marketing-University of Santander, Spain
2012-2014 Spa Academy
2018-2019 Spa Academy
Awards
1993 1st Prize awarded by the Royal Association of Licentiates, Doctors and Masters in Economics, Management and Social Sciences of the University of Liège (ALDLG); prize awarded to the most outstanding student of his class. University of Liège, Belgium
1986 1st Prize Photography Competition AGFA-GEVAERT-Museum of Photography-CHARLEROI, Belgium
Publications and press
2018 The “bank-system” - Brussels, Belgium
2018 Political mothballs - Brussels, Belgium
2017 Art to rebase finance - Brussels, Belgium
2012 Price, value and an immature society - Brussels, Belgium
2011 What if we stop bequeathing our property? Brussels, Belgium
2011 For the creation of a world ethics committee - Brussels, Belgium
2011 Financial deindustrialization - Brussels, Belgium
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