by Dr. Barbara Aust-Wegemund, Art Historian

In the heart of Basel, during Art Basel Week, RHY ART FAIR showcases innovative contemporary in the exhibition space of Rhypark Basel. A number of factors combine to make the first edition of Rhy Art Fair in Basel a key destination for emerging art. These factors include Basel’s increasingly vibrant art scene and a number of well-established museums such as Foundation Beyeler, Art Museum Tinguely, Art Museum Basel and Vitra Design Museum. The juried, contemporary art event is featuring an international slate of artists. One of the highlights during the show are the Bronze sculptures by Miranda.

About her artistic concept the artist, who is living and working in Geneva, explains: “My sculptures selected for the showin Basel are made in the lost wax technique. Both works are dealing with the question of reflection. In “Le Reflet” the woman seems to be young, but her mirror image in the water is one of an old woman. To me it reminds me of the water spiders that glide on the surface of ponds or still waters.”

“As in the progression of my work” Miranda continues, ”my sculptures are like a bridge between the real world, the collective unconscious and the sacred. Although the Bronze heavy figures are anchored in the ground, they arise in an uncertain balance, fragile state, playing with subtle emotions, light and shadows.”

Miranda (Roux) was born in 1959 in Nyborg, Denmark. She studied Sculpture, Copper Engraving and Lithography at Ecole des Beaux Arts Paris. In Denmark she has been introducted in the Goldsmith and lost wax techniques. Since 2008 Miranda is living and working in Geneva, Switzerland, where she is a member of Visarte, SSBA Geneva and the Sculpture Society of Geneva.

Influenced by nature the sculptor creates a vivid sort of liveliness, reflecting the impression of the reality and the temporariness of these impressions. Like painters who build their work out of colour and light spots, Miranda is building her sculptures out of clay and bronze, passing through a stage in a long progress towards dynamism, simultaneity and fusion. By making the growing-process visible for the viewer, she also includes the aspect of temporariness into her work.

Playing between real and ideal, new and traditional forms, Miranda has discovered a form which is variable, revolutionary and quite different from any other concept, because she has discovered form in movement, and the movement of form. It is just this dual conception of form that gives a hint of life in her work.

LOCATION

RHY ART FAIR Basel
Rhypark Basel
Muelhauserstrasse 17
4056 Basel, Switzerland
www.rhy-art.com

OPENING RECEPTION
Wednesday, June, 17, 2015
5.00 pm – 10.00 pm

EXHIBITION HOURS
Thursday – Sunday, June 18-21, 2015
11.00 am – 8.00 pm

CONTACT ARTIST
MIRANDA
Booth A 7
Phone: +41 (0)79 590 03 08
miranda.atelier@bluewin.ch
www.mirandasculpt.ch

CONTACT AUTHOR
Dr. Barbara Aust-Wegemund
info@arthistoryconsulting.de
www.arthistoryconsulting.de

About the Author:

Dr. Barbara Aust-Wegemund, born in Zurich/ Switzerland, is an Art Historian and Managing Director at Art History Consulting (AHC), based in Hamburg. She studied Art History at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (Germany), University for Foreigners Perugia (Italy) and London Guildhall University (UK). The art historian and art critic has written widely on modern and contemporary art. Her essays have been featured in monographs, exhibition catalogues, e-zines, journals and the online editorial department of Goethe Institute Inter Nationes.