ISABEL MIRAMONTES
ISABEL MIRAMONTES was born in Santiago de Compostela, a major pilgrimage site. She has always been fascinated by its Celtic origins, and it remains a magical place for her. However, the artist grew up and studied in Brussels, Belgium, where she obtained a teaching degree in Visual Arts from the Institut Sainte-Marie.
From 1988, she continued her training at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Saint-Gilles, in Patrick Pouillart's studio, where she acquired solid experience in drawing and sketching from live models. ISABEL MIRAMONTES retains from this experience the need to capture the gestures of people at all times, attitudes and impressions jotted down in numerous sketchbooks, all of which bear witness to the subtle and perceptive gaze she casts around her. In 1994, in the studio of a sculptor friend, she discovered a passion for sculpture, which became her preferred means of expression, to which she has devoted herself ever since. Every day, ISABEL MIRAMONTES shapes the earth, exploring new forms to give substance to her inner life and convey her vision of the world.
Struck by a silhouette, a movement, a symbol, a thought, ISABEL MIRAMONTES translates the human attitude with profound and sincere emotion. Miramontes' plastic language imposes the human being represented in all the ambiguity of his power and fragility, his confinement and his desire for freedom, his dream and his triumph. This fascinating character, a synthesis of forms and thoughts, expresses the reality of life with its moments of happiness but also of drama, of abandonment but also of tension, a character who, assuredly, challenges each of us in the depths of our being.
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