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Artworks
Isabel Miramontes Spanish, b. 1962
Entasis, 2018bronze80 x 20 x 20 cm
31 1/2 x 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 inEdition #1/8, limited 8 plus 4 artist's proofsAvailable upon requestFurther images
Entasis is a round character, dressed in the traditional striae so specific to the artist’s work, tilting slowly the head and crossing delicately hands in the back. In architecture, entasis...Entasis is a round character, dressed in the traditional striae so specific to the artist’s work, tilting slowly the head and crossing delicately hands in the back.
In architecture, entasis is the application of a convex curve to a surface for aesthetic purposes. Its best-known use is in certain orders of Classical columns that curve slightly as their diameter is decreased from the bottom upwards.
Conversely to her so thin usual sculptures, the artist insists on the curvature of her new character, who hides his personality under a thick outside envelope …
Isabel Miramontes gives each of her sculptures a soul of his own. Each figure carries within it a message delivered by a movement, a posture, an expression.
To achieve this near perfection, Isabel Miramontes shapes the material, lightens it, softens it, bares it, works the curves until reaching this subtle and powerful balance.
Provenance
Its name, Entasis, refers to the eponymous technical term for the curve of the shaft of a column.
Contrary to the thin sculptures, Isabel Miramontes insists on the roundness of this new character,
who hides his personality under a thick outer envelope ...Exhibitions
Resident artist of Art Thema since 25 years