Isabel Miramontes Spanish, b. 1962

• Isabel Miramontes creates bronze sculptures with a warm patina. Her works show sketched human bodies, associated with shapes or objects and others, more realistic. In most of works of Isabel Miramontes, emptiness is inviting herself. The body, posture, movement and essence of human life are at the heart of the artist’s work. Matter reduced to the essential that gently transforms itself into emotions and forgotten sensations, the supreme value of its destiny.  The visual language of Isabel Miramontes steadfastly represents the human being in all the ambiguity of its power and frailty, its confinement and yearning for liberty, its dreams and triumphs. The fascinating figure, the synthesis of forms and thoughts, expresses the reality of life with its moments of joy, but also drama, abandon and tension. Indeed a figure who most assuredly speaks to everyone at the very depth of their being...
 
• Abstract bodies cut into strips, Isabel Miramontes explores the concept of sculpture. At the height of the usual sculpture, she opposes an apparent emptiness. For Isabel Miramontes, sculpture is not a block of material to which a shape is given, sculpture is a void to which the artist gives a surface. The symbolism of emptiness: The scope of the characters of the sculptor whose face is only sketched is metaphorical and metaphysical. For the artist, the human existence, at once concrete and impalpable, is made of flesh and bones and that part of essential emptiness which our emotions constitute.
 
• The cuts of characters of Isabel Miramontes that evoke the strips of mummies, give the image of a body reduced to its footprint. When it comes to disappearing, there will be only one memory left of the body. 
 
• We feel the same feeling as in front of an old photo: the protagonists are dead but the bodies vitality is terribly present. This fleeting feeling between appearance and disappearance. The body of passage sometimes becomes invisible. The curve of a lounge chair, a bench, a face and feet suggest the presence of a possible body as a spirit who would have chosen to live there.

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