Horizon, 2021

Isabel Miramontes  

Exclusively availabe upon order at Art Yi gallery in Brussels

Artist and foundry in Belgium

New year, new horizon... 
Hand in visor, the character of Isabel Miramontes scans the horizon, her body gently swept by the wind. 
Is he waiting for better days, the return of a loved one, or is he simply admiring a sunset or the flight of a gull? 
This sculpture is part of the theme of the wind and the seaside, dear to the artist from a coastal region, Galicia. 

We find the aesthetics of Miramontes with these dancing bronze strips around the character and the affection of the artist for the contemplation of the sea, her gaze on the horizon, and the well-being of the caress of the wind...

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.

• 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.