INK, Ingrid Sunday-Ramirez Ponce

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The artist INK, Ingrid Sonntag-Ramirez Ponce, with a section of her portrait “Adam” or “ Jesus Christ Superstar ”

INK , real name Ingrid Sonntag-Ramirez Ponce , (born February 20, 1966 in Alsfeld , Hessen ) is a nationally and internationally distinguished German draftsman , painter and project artist ; she is also a juror for various art and culture awards .

Life, career

Ingrid Sonntag (married Sonntag-Ramirez Ponce) was born in Alsfeld, Hesse, in 1966. She grew up in Butzbach . Her talent for drawing was shown early in her childhood. Her siblings had changed the short form of their name "Ing" to "INK" because of their passion for painting with ink. In Butzbach she attended the city school, then the Weidigschule ( grammar school ), which she graduated from high school in 1985 ; A top in the art exam was a matter of course. However, for economic reasons, artistic training and a career were not considered. A banking apprenticeship followed at INK. She was successfully employed in this profession until 2001 and made a career.

INK initially only lived out her artistic talent in her private life, in her free time, and later alongside family and work. From 1991 to 1993 she also worked as a lecturer for “traditional engraving technology ” at the adult education center in Friedberg. “On weekends and on vacation” she did intensive self-study with frequent museum visits . Here she has internalized her role models , which include the old masters such as Michelangelo , Rembrandt and Vermeer, as well as Albrecht Dürer or the example of Juan Sánchez Cotán with his still lifes , but also Gustave Courbet , Lovis Corinth , Käthe Kollwitz , Franz Gertsch and the American Chuck Close . It was not until 2006 that she made the artistic works that had been created and collected up to that point available to the public. The positive response that this triggered prompted INK to devote itself entirely to art. Since then she has been working as a freelance artist , under the short name INK. She lives and works, since 1993, in Jossgrund in the Hessian Spessart and in Andalusia in Spain . She has received numerous international and national art and culture awards for her work. She received her first international award just two years after starting her career.

Work technique, work

INK's works are primarily pencil drawings . They are manufactured using extremely complex technology, so that: "a square centimeter of them" costs "an hour" or "150 hours ... for a portrait ". There are “the techniques of the old masters, such as B. Dürer and the Dutch School "

“INK uses a variety of pencils with various hardnesses and uses a special sharpener through which it can create certain angles. She reworks the tip of the pen with special sandpaper. She uses thick special paper with a smooth surface for drawing . With small movements she paints tiny circles that later appear like a homogeneous surface. She applies up to ten layers on top of each other in order to haptically represent a male skin. Sometimes she works for several hours without putting her pencil down. Erasing or other correction is not possible ”. At the beginning of each picture there is a sketch that has been drawn with light hand. The original image is then worked hard and firmly into the paper. The light parts in the picture above are worked out first, while the darker parts follow later. The portraits are one of her specialties. They are characterized by "hyper-realistic" attention to detail. The people portrayed appear extremely lively and "... designed with incredible realism ... down to the last detail". The artist “shines into their souls or draws their souls” and “ brings out the aura of the person”.

In addition to the pencil, other techniques, such as acrylic and oil painting, or their combinations, are used in her works. In addition to portraits, she also devotes herself to flora and fauna , which, in their naturalness, remind one of Maria Sibylla Merian .

INK has a strong political and social side, which she aggressively connects with her art, and which z. B. lead to cartoons , z. B. by Nicolas Sarkozy , naked, as the act "Carlo Bruni", in the attitude of a well-known act by Carla Bruni , his wife or Angela Merkel , as " Angela d'Arc ", waving a flag ...). They are “portraits with a roguish neck ” or “with a dose of malice”. For her, art is, as she repeatedly emphasizes in lectures and artist talks (here on the occasion of the Wächtersbacher Kunstsalon, "... a different form of language and must never be just decorative").

Again and again she participates in social projects. The collaboration in a social project by the Cologne-based “Tatort Actors”, which campaigns for sexually abused children and prison children in the Philippines , is well known. With such art projects, she connects people across the globe.

In 2010, in the project “INK meets Ludwig Emil Grimm ” , she dealt with the hitherto little known painter brother of the linguists and fairy tale collectors of Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm . Since 2011 INK has been dealing with Spanish culture in the project “Duende de España” (the mystical magic of Spain).

Inspired by the three-movement “Dutch masters Suite” by the Dutch composer Johan de Meij , who lives and works in New York and who deals with Dutch masterpieces by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Jan Steen , she created the art project of the same name. It opened the Main-Kinzig-Fulda Cultural Summer in 2014. The composer traveled from the USA and personally conducted a 70-piece symphonic wind orchestra belonging to the project . It is a fascinating dialogue between two genres: drawing or film from a series of drawings and music.

On the occasion of the Luther year 2017, she started the project: "Bethlehem / Another day in paradise" , which deals with a "new translation" of the Bible into the visual arts. One thematic focus is the role of women in the Bible. The cycle of works includes a series of " Eva " pictures, which show the protagonist under many different aspects, from "Eva - origin of the world" (allusion to Gustave Courbet's work of the same title), to "Eva - the knowledge" , to " Eva - the strong " and " Eva - poisonous " . In this project (“Bethlehem / Another day in paradise”) as well as in “Duende de España”, INK succeeds time and again in achieving special effects through collaboration with the dance company Artodance, under the direction of Monica Opsahl. Monica Opsahl, from Norway, she is the MKK's culture award winner, answers INK's series of works with the performance “La vida” and “apple story”. The two artists have already performed together in various places. Here two genres of art, drawing, painting and expressive dance, are related to one another.

Another project deals with the consequences of the Second World War . Among other things, INK illustrated two books by the author Brunhilde Miehe, which deal with a childhood during the war. Inspired by Wolfgang Borchert's “The Kitchen Clock” , illustrations were also created. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the first exhibition “ Degenerate Art ” of the National Socialists , INK created her first three-dimensional, collaged drawing “EntARTet” .

“Between the Times” , an artist dialogue between critical poetry penned by Arnd Dünnebacke and works by INK, started as a project in 2018.

INK is a member of various art and cultural associations, u. a. the Bad Orb- based Opera Academy , the Hanauer Kulturverein, the Archive Frauenleben (MKK) and on the board of the Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft, founded in 1857, one of the world's oldest artist associations

Exhibitions (selection) and reception

With an extensive work INK has participated in many solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad, for. B. in:

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INK is also repeatedly with interviews, mostly in connection with current exhibitions, guest on radio and television.

Awards and prizes (selection)

  • International Art Prize 2008 of the Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Karlsruhe "Modern Mobility" (Second Prize)
  • Culture Prize of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis 2009
  • International Art Prize 2011 of the Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Karlsruhe "Spiegelung und Reflexion " (first prize)
  • Promotion Prize of the St. Leopold Peace Prize 2011 for humanitarian engagement in the arts, A - Klosterneuburg / Vienna, International Art Prize on the subject of " Justice creates peace "
  • Hans-Jürgen Imiela Memorial Prize, 27th Mainz Art Prize Eisenturm 2017 for " Thoughts are free " (second prize)
  • Art Prize 2018 of the Kunststation Kleinsassen (Fulda), for "YOU and ER, WHO are WE?" (Audience award)
  • International Art Prize 2019 of the Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Karlsruhe "On the way - where?" (Third prize)
  • 11th Nordhäuser Graphics Award (2020) of the Ilsetraut Glock-Grabe Foundation ( audience award ), Kunsthaus Meyenburg , Nordhausen / Thuringia

Projects

  • 2009: Start of the project "With my back to the wall / Stand up for their Rights" to support work for children's rights with a focus on the sexual abuse of children and prison children in the Philippines
  • 2010 Start of the exhibition series project “INK meets Grimm” through the Hessian Grimm cities
  • 2011 Start of the project "Duende de España" (the mystical magic of Spain)
  • 2013 Start of the “Dutch masters Suite” project in cooperation with the Dutch composer Johan de Meij, who lives and works in New York
  • 2014 Start of the project "Bethlehem / Another day in paradise"
  • 2015 start of the project "1944/1945"
  • 2018 Start of the project “Between Times” , a conversation between poetry and drawing
  • 2019 start of the project "Grablege Christi" , an art project in picture, word and sound (opera singers, chamber choir, chamber orchestra and organ)

bibliography

  • "The Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft - artistic recklessness" , publisher: Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft eV, founded in 1857, 2020
  • "Nordhäuser Graphic Prize 2020" , editor: Susanne Hinsching, Kunsthaus Meyenburg, publisher: Office for Education and Culture, Nordhausen / Thuringia, 2020
  • "The Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft - Today" , publisher: Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft eV, founded in 1857, 2018
  • Karl Damian, "ad naturam - an der Natur" , drawings by INK Sonntag-Ramirez Ponce, CoCon-Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86314-292-6
  • Brunhilde Miehe, "Grete in der Schwalm" - summer / autumn, a book about war and a child's flight in 1943, drawings by INK Sonntag-Ramirez Ponce, Miehe-Medien Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-9817692-2-7
  • Werner Janssen (texts), Heinz Hof (poems), "KINDER OUR WORLD" , drawings by INK Sonntag-Ramirez Ponce, Erebodos Publishing House, Parkstad Limburg (NL), 2017, ISBN 978-94-90456-09-2
  • Brunhilde Miehe "Grete in der Schwalm - Spring" , a book about war and the flight of a child in 1943, drawings by INK Sonntag-Ramirez Ponce, Miehe-Medien Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-9817692-1-0
  • “VOM JUNG UND OLD BEIN” , publisher: Cooperation project between the artists' association Walkmühle eV and the youth and elderly work departments of the Office for Social Work in Wiesbaden, 2015
  • "With your back to the wall" , drawings by INK Sonntag-Ramirez Ponce, for the street children of Manila, CoCon-Verlag, Hanau, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86314-221-6
  • “INK meets Ludwig Emil Grimm” , publisher: Burkhard Kling, head of the Brothers Grimm House, Steinau an der Strasse, CoCon-Verlag, Hanau, 2010, ISBN 978-3-937774-91-6
  • "International Lucas-Cranach Prize of the City of Kronach 2011" , editor: Ingo Cesaro, "Regionale Kunstförderung Kronach eV", 2011
  • “The lust and splendor of Italy” , Hanau artists see Italy (18th - 20th century), publisher: Magistrat Hanau, museums and fine arts, Richard Schaffer Hartmann, CoCon-Verlag, Hanau 2011, ISBN 978-3-863114- 206-3
  • "Competition, victory and defeat" Publisher: Bernd-Rosenheim-Stiftung, Offenbach am Main, publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89739-617-3

literature

  • Prof. Dr. Rödiger-Diruf: Laudation for the awarding of the International Art Prize 2008, the Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Karlsruhe (Second Prize),
  • Erich Pipa: "Laudation for the award of the Painting Culture Prize, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, 2009"
  • Andrea Seeger - "Tatort artist - INK draws to help Filipino children" , Evangelische Sonntagszeitung No. 49, December 7, 2014, pp. 14-15
  • Regina Käsmayr - “The Art of Freedom” … .. “The Soul Draftsman - The Artist INK and the Luck of Following Your Talent” , Frau und Mutter, No. 07.08 / 17 and 09/18, https: // www. kfd-bundesverband.de/frau-und-mutter/archiv/archiv-2017-die-seelenzeichnerin/
  • Contemporary art in the art collections of the City of Limburg, March 16 - June 3, 2018
  • "A picture is worth a thousand words" , Gelnhauser Tageblatt, September 10, 2016
  • Christoph A. Brandner, "Unleashed power of the baritone" , Fuldaer Zeitung, May 14, 2019
  • "Artist dialogue in words and pictures" , Gelnhäuser Neue Zeitung January 12, 2019, p. 29
  • “Homage to modern masters” , Gelnhäuser Tageblatt, June 10, 2014
  • "HR films the encounter between two top-class players" , GNZ, June 6, 2014
  • "Rendezvous after 200 years" , FAZ, October 30, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burkhard Kling, editor - "INK meets Ludwig Emil Grimm", CoCon-Verlag, Hanau, 2018, ISBN 978-3-937774-91-6 , p. 8)
  2. ↑ Silvia Dahlkamp - “Actually, I'm completely different”, DER SPIEGEL Wissen, Feb. 2016, p. 35
  3. ↑ Silvia Dahlkamp - “Actually, I'm completely different”, DER SPIEGEL Wissen, Feb. 2016, p. 36
  4. ↑ Andrea Pauly, "Master of the Pencil Style" Hanauer Zeitung, 10. and Hanauer Anzeiger, June 2016
  5. ↑ Hanswerner Kruse, “Portraits that reveal the soul”, Kinzigtal Nachrichten, August 19, 2017
  6. ^ "Art is a form of language", Gelnhäuser Neue Zeitung, October 26, 2019
  7. ↑ Andrea Pauly, “Master of the Pencil” Gelnhäuser Tageblatt, June 14, 2016
  8. ↑ Hanswerner Kruse, “Portraits that reveal the soul”, Kinzigtal Nachrichten, August 19, 2017
  9. ↑ Uta Grossmann - “Bringing the Aura of People to Light”, Evangelische Sonntags-Zeitung, No. 6, February 5, 2017, p. 17
  10. ^ Karl Damian, INK Sonntag-Ramirez Ponce - "ad naturam, to nature", CoCon-Verlag, Hanau, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86314-292-6 , p. 4
  11. ↑ "The President is naked", Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, March 15, 2011
  12. ↑ Miriam Keilbach, “The Naked President”, Frankfurter Rundschau, June 19, 2012
  13. ↑ Miriam Keilbach, “The Naked President” , Frankfurter Rundschau, June 19, 2012
  14. ↑ "The President is naked" , Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, March 15, 2011
  15. ↑ Detlef Sundermann, "Portraits with Schalk in the Neck" , Frankfurter Rundschau, March 3, 2009
  16. ↑ Martina Dreisbach, “With a dose of malevolence”, Frankfurter Neue Presse, June 16, 2012
  17. ↑ http://www.maerzwind.de/kunstsalon/
  18. ^ "Art is a form of language", Gelnhäuser Neue Zeitung, October 26, 2019
  19. ↑ "The President is naked", Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, March 15, 2011
  20. ↑ Miriam Keilbach, “The Naked President”, Frankfurter Rundschau, June 19, 2012
  21. ↑ Andrea Seeger - "Tatort artist - INK draws to help Filipino children", Evangelische Sonntagszeitung No. 49, December 7, 2014 p. 14-15
  22. ^ "Rendezvous after 200 years" , FAZ, October 30, 2010
  23. ↑ Birgit Sinsel, With the Flamenco Dancer to Spain, Gelnhäuser Tageblatt, June 10, 2012, p. 33
  24. ↑ Michael Huber, Art is Part of Our Culture, Ventura 2/2012
  25. ↑ "HR films the encounter between two top-class players" , GNZ, June 6, 2014
  26. ↑ "Artistic Soul Relatives", GNZ, and Hanauer Anzeiger, June 10, 2014
  27. ↑ Uta Grossmann - “Bringing the Aura of People to Light” , Evangelische Sonntags-Zeitung, No. 6, February 5, 2017, p. 17
  28. ↑ "International Museum Day" , Art Collections of the City of Limburg, Sunday May 13, 2018
  29. ^ "A touch of Spain in Hutten - dance and art at the Spanish evening of the LandArtFestival" , Kinzigtal Nachrichten, Wed. 8/30/2017, page 10, Art Collections of the City of Limburg, Sunday May 13, 2018
  30. ↑ Christine Zacharias - "Brunhilde Miehe has published her first children's book", Hersfelder Zeitung, November 4, 2015
  31. ↑ Birgit Sinsel, "Schicksalsstriche - INK illustrated with attention to detail and sensitivity book about refugee girls", Gelnhäuser Tageblatt, December 19, 2015
  32. ^ "Artist dialogue in words and pictures" , Gelnhäuser Neue Zeitung January 12, 2019, p. 29
  33. ↑ Andrea Pauly, "Master of the Pencil", Gelnhäuser Tageblatt, June 14, 2016
  34. ↑ http://www.frankfurter-kuenstlergesellschaft.de/site/pages/lösungen_overview.php
  35. ^ Hessischer Rundfunk, Hessenschau February 15, 2012
  36. ↑ Hessischer Rundfunk, main thing culture June 14, 2014
  37. ↑ Hessischer Rundfunk, picture sheet September 3, 2013
  38. ↑ "HR2 Culture - Doppelkopf", March 3, 2015
  39. ↑ January 11, 2017 ARD, My New Life
  40. ↑ Culture Prize Painting 2009
  41. ↑ [1] Nordhaeuser graphics prize awarded
  42. ↑ [2] Nordhaeuser graphics Price
  43. ↑ [3] Nordhaeuser graphics Price
  44. ↑ [4] "Peace, order and movement" in mdr, February 16, 2020, 7.30 p.m.
personal data
SURNAME Sunday-Ramirez Ponce, INK Ingrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES INK (pseudonym); Sunday-Ramirez Ponce, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, painter and project artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Alsfeld , Hesse