Isabel Miramontes (1962) is a Spanish-born Belgian sculptor. She is known for disproportionate bronze sculptures of the human figure
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 Isabel 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...
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| Ms. Isabel Miramontes |
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| Boutmonde |
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| Body Double |
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| Big Step |
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| Bather |
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| Arobase |
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| Horizon |
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| Modus Vivendi |
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| Promesse |
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| Gloup |
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| En Attendant |
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| Edge of the World - Standing |
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| Gust of Wind |
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| Freehand |
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| Entasis |
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| Elastic World |
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| L'ange passe |
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| Mimosa |
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| Dream |
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| Come On |
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| Hazard |
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| Origin |
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| Dialogue of the deaf |
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| Interrogation |
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| Primavera |
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| Intimidad |
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| Siesta |
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| Sitting |
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| Tango |
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| Washed Out |
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| Nirvana |
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| Why |
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