Mimosa, 2023

Isabel Miramontes  

Edition 6/8 directly available in Art Yi gallery in BrusselsArtist and foundry in BelgiumThe artist has represented here a little girl who has just received a beautiful dress and who marvels and admires herself timidly in her gift. This little girl is in the spring of her life. Mimosa embodies the Miramontes style. The artist expressed all her femininity and her poetry in this masterpiece. 
This bronze is in elegant lightness, vitality and animation. 
The girl dances, her dress made up of circle rings float around her moving body.

Miramontes gives a name in her native language to this delicate sculpture. 
In Spanish, "Mimoso/a" is used for a child who is spoiled, pampered. In the dictionary, mimosa is translated by minaudière. 

The Mimosa is the flower symbol of feminine energy: under its apparent fragility, it hides a strength and a surprising vitality.
In the famous language of flowers, the mimosa is loaded with symbols: sensitivity, tenderness, certainty, elegance. But, the most common is that of secret love: "No one knows that I love you". The mimosa is also the flower of reunions!

It is also the sun, elegance, simplicity and tenderness.It is the emblem of Women's Day!• Isabel Miramontes was born in 1962 in Santiago de Compostella in Spain. This eminent place of pilgrimage, which is of Celtic origin, the warm wind and sea, always fascinates her and remains for her a magical area.• But the artist lives in Brussels. It was in Belgium, in Brussels, that the artist grew up and did her studies, obtaining a teaching diploma in Fine Arts at the Institut Sainte Marie.• The body, posture, movement and essence of human life are at the heart of Isabel Miramontes' work. Her works show fascinating and contemplative figure, abstract bodies cut into strips, sketched human bodies, associated with shapes or objects and others, more realistic. At the height of the usual sculpture, Isabel Miramontes opposes an apparent emptiness. For the artist, 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 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 these characters give the image of a body reduced to its footprint.  The tender form of the body of her figurines who seems ready to faint. Matter resduced to the essential that gently transforms itself into emotions and forgotten sensations, the only one memory left of the the body, the supreme value of its destiny.