Big Step / Grand Pas, 2015

Isabel Miramontes  

Last Artist Proof to create, then the sculpture will be completely sold outExclusively available upon order for a new edition at Art Yi gallery in BrusselsSpanish artist living in Brussels and foundry in BelgiumMonumental sculpture for gardenWaterproof for outdoorCan choose the color either on mineral grey, or warm brown4-6 months lead time for a new edition to create upon orderAll other exhibition editions have been soldA man is walking. He walks with a determined step; his legs and arms unquestionably betray a movement as energetic as it is regular. He walks and he knows where he is going.

Isabel Miramontes gives each of her sculptures a soul of her 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.• 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.  • The visual language of Isable 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 sculptor admirably captures the gesture and posture of this experience of the face and body transcended by spirit. The singular and unique figure, the synthesis of forms and thoughts, expresses the reality of life with its moments of joy, but also drama, abandon and tension. The profond sensations and complex emotions of human being aspire to freedom and imprints itself for ever on our minds. The scope of Isabel Miramontes' characters, with their faces mere abstract representations, is both metaphorical and metaphysical. Indeed a figure who most assuredly speaks to everyone at the very depth of their being...