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Irena Polanec (b.1948) is a Slovenian-born artist. She has gained international recognition, winning several important international prizes.

The paintress Irena Polanec represents a distinctly individual name in the scene of contemporary Slovene fine art and she stirs the waters of professional and general public with her dissimilitude. Very telling is also the fact that she was chosen into the honorary title of "Slovene woman of the year" in 1997 with an enormous number of votes.

She shaped abroad, in Paris, which she chose to be her place of artistic creations, hopes, and self-validation already as a very young girl in the seventies. She spends there most of her creative time. With her own primal and bolt artistic message she knew how to reach the world of art very early on and succeeded. She aroused such interest that she was offered a co-authorship of a book about the authentic fine arts "L'Arche de Noe" together with a renowned French writer and a long-year director of the most important French daily "Le Figaro".

Irena Polanec is the first and only Slovene paintress who was accepted to the "Salon d'Artistes Francais" in 1979. In the same year today legendary painter, who also lives in Paris, Zoran Mušič was exhibiting at the Salon. She is a member of many art associations and academies, and the winner of a number of Slovene and international awards. French alliance for culture has awarded her "Contemporary Creator", Grand Prix - golden medal for painting, Golden painting of 1998, and the Award for exceptionality 1998.

She also received a Grand prize of the Var province, bronze medal for painting by the Academic Association Arts - Sciense - Lettres, for the exceptional contribution to the reputation of the French culture she was awarded a golden medal by the honorary commission Le Merite et Devouement Francais.

Irena Polanec continues to confirm her painting talent on the selected Paris exhibitions such as Salon d'Artistes Francais and Conparasion as well as in numerous exhibitions across the world. Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, Tokio, Milan, Zürich, Monte Carlo, Munich, Vienna are just some of the world cities where Irena Polanec displays her works. In Trebnje, at the Camp of fine arts self-made men, Irena Polanec is a regular participant. In the gallery of fine arts self-made men she also exhibits independently. With the uniqueness of the artistic message that opens the doors for her all around the world, she continues to thrill the arts admirers with her new collection "Eva" (Eve).