The idea of Carte Blanche is to provide a platform for contemporary art now. Local and International creatives and artists will be given the opportunity to show their works in a virtual gallery online and a gallery space at the Aurora premises.
november 2025
Sophie Eymond
Sophie Eymond was born in Clamart, France, in 1991, and currently lives and works in the Val de Loire (Orléans, France). She studied at École Boulle in Paris, one of France’s most renowned schools for sculpture, where she trained in the studios of Yorhan Lebovici and Patrick Blanchard. She continued her education in Val Gardena, focusing on classical statuary at the Professional School for Artistic Crafts in Ortisei, and spent two years working alongside sculptor Peter Kostner. Her artistic practice is shaped by a diverse range of inspirations, including Cy Twombly, Miriam Cahn, Fabienne Verdier, Camille Claudel, Picasso’s Blue and Rose periods, as well as classical Greek and Roman sculpture. She also draws from a personal fascination with biology and the microscopic world of microorganisms. Eymond’s primary media include sculpture in clay, plaster, and bronze, along with embroidered textiles and recently drawings. “The fragility of the human being unsettles me,” says Sophie Eymond. The artist combines traditional and contemporary approaches, bringing together diverse materials in innovative ways while exploring new conceptual understandings of sculpture. Her work is infused with tenderness and intimacy, a sense of enigmatic poetry, and a quiet magic that evokes wonder. Eymond often merges embroidered textiles with plaster or polyester casts. This fusion creates sculptural forms, sometimes anthropomorphic, that are always rich with meaning. For the 14th edition of Carte Blanche at the Aurora Hotel Eymond will show new works alongside works that are characterizing for her oeuvre.
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The work shown at the Aurora
They are sold directly by the artist to the customer with a certificate of authenticity and invoice.
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THE IDEA
The aim is to curate the Hotel’s art specifically - we want there to be good stories and a lasting wellbeing for the guests as well as try to make them have a unique and distinctive experience. The interplay of art design and the Hotel Aurora’s architecture is what characterizes this special place in South Tyrol. The historic hotel in Merano is marked by art treasures and designer pieces that one can find throughout the hotel as well as in every room and this is what makes the Aurora so outstanding. Carte Blanche will host about 6 art exhibitions per year and is keen on giving artists the opportunity to also create site specific works for the hotel that will be shown permanently. The shown art works as well as art editions of works on display will be available at the Hotels Aurora’s own art corner.
THE CURATOR
The upcoming exhibitions will be curated by the freelance curator Eva von Ingram Harpf. Curator Eva von Ingram Harpf, 1987, after graduating from Bocconi University in Milan with a thesis in Art Banking worked at Johann König Gallery in Berlin, as well as Ghetta Gallery, Ortisei and holds a Master´s degree in Contemporary Art from Sothebys London. Since 2012 she works as an independent curator and art adviser and is based in Bolzano, Südtirol, Italy. She is a member of the board of ar/ge Kunst Bozen and founder of y-contemporary platform.