Elastic World, 2015

Isabel Miramontes  

Available exclusively at the Art Yi gallery in Brussels

Artist and founder in Belgium

This elongated work combines the beauty of forms, balance and blade technique, characteristic of Isabel Miramontes' style, with the humor, energy and strength of the subject.

The character emerges from a land that tries to catch him, and the form stretches under the sculptor's hands. Isabel Miramontes offers us her ironic vision of today's world, where her character resists.

• Miramontes was born in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. This high place of pilgrimage, of Celtic origin, still fascinates her and remains for her a magical country.

• But the artist lives in Brussels. It is in Belgium that the artist grew up and studied: she obtained a regentship in Plastic Arts at the Saint Marie Institute.

• The body, posture, movement and the essence of human life are at the heart of Miramontes' work. His works show fascinating and contemplative figures, which are often in a state of flux, sketched human bodies, associated with forms or objects and others, more realistic.

• Through bodies cut into strips, Isabel Miramontes explores the concept of sculpture. In the midst of the usual sculpture, she opposes an apparent void. For her, sculpture is not a block of matter to which we give a form, sculpture is a void to which the artist gives a surface. For Isabel Miramontes, human existence, both concrete and impalpable, is made of flesh and bone and of this essential part of emptiness that constitutes our emotions. The cuts of these characters give the image of a body reduced to its imprint. The tender form of the body of her figurines that seems ready to vanish. Matter reduced to the essential that is slowly transformed into forgotten emotions and sensations, the only remaining memory of the body, the supreme value of its destiny.