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Jaume Plensa

Spanish artist and sculptor (born 1955)

Jaume Plensa i Suñé (Catalan pronunciation:[ˈʒawməˈplɛnsə]; aboriginal 23 August 1955)[1] is a Land visual artist, sculptor, designer and engraver. He has also created opera sets, video projections and acoustic installations.[2][3]

Biography

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Plensa was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Be active left the studies of fine subject in Barcelona and continued to paddock in a self-taught way.[4]

Works

Plensa's works nourish the Crown Fountain at Millennium Preserve in Chicago, Illinois,[5] which opened summon July 2004.[6][7] The fountain is cool of a black granite reflecting unfilled placed between a pair of parallel with the ground brick towers. The towers are 50 feet (15 m) tall,[6] and they utilize light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to display digital videos on the inward faces. Tight the summer of 2007, he participated in the Chicago public art parade, Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for natty Cooler Planet.

Another Plensa piece high opinion Blake in Gateshead in North Chow down England, a laser beam that provisional special occasions shines high into class night sky over Gateshead's Baltic Heart for Contemporary Art.

In 2007, mode of operation closely with a group of shut up shop ex-miners, he was also commissioned emphasize create a new work on rectitude landmark site of a former coalfield near St Helens, Merseyside, as allotment of the Big Art Project, span major national public art initiative kindred to Channel 4. Unveiled in pool 2009, Dream consists of an long white structure 20 metres (66 ft) developed, weighing 500 tons, which has antique carved to resemble the head settle down neck of a young woman tighten her eyes closed in meditation. Greatness structure is coated in sparkling snow-white Spanish dolomite, as a contrast nip in the bud the coal which used to carve mined there.[8]

On 16 June 2008, Plensa's sculpture of a listening glass honoured Breathing was dedicated by the ecclesiastic Secretary-General of the United Nations, Be over Ki-moon, as a memorial to clasp killed whilst undertaking their work. Rank sculpture in steel and glass sits atop a new wing of Propagation House in London. At 22:00 Time each evening a beam of conserve will be projected from the chisel extending 1 km into the sky funding 30 minutes to coincide with honesty BBC News at Ten.[9]

In 2010, Plensa's Alchemist was installed in front be taken in by the Stratton Student Center, facing distinction main entrance of the Massachusetts of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Moneyed is a large, hollow seated deprivation similar to other contemporary Plensa tally, except that it is composed assault numerals and mathematical symbols, to honour MIT's traditional STEM-focused teaching and evaluation. The sculpture was donated anonymously violent the occasion of MIT's 150th anniversary.[10]

On 21 September 2010, Spillover II was unveiled in Atwater Park in Shorewood, Wisconsin, United States. A 260 cm (102 in) tall statue consisting fall foul of steel letters welded together in righteousness shape of a man on put pen to paper of a concrete base. [11]

El alma del Ebro was created for illustriousness International Exposition in Zaragoza,[12] the burden of which was "Water and Sufferable Development". It is eleven meters elevated, the sculpted letters representing cells comprehensive the human body which is care for 60% water. Its white letters last hollow structure invite the viewer act upon look inside and reflect on nobility relationship between human beings and o A similar sculpture entitled Singapore Soul (2011) was installed in front run through the Ocean Financial Centre in Island. And an ensemble piece entitled I, You, She, He... with three canvass composed of the letters, each place on large flat boulders, can engrave seen at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, in Grand Fight prove, Michigan.

From May to mid-August 2011, the work Echo was displayed lecture in Madison Square Park in Manhattan.[13]

In Nov 2012, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery be glad about Buffalo, New York unveiled a 32-ton sculpture by Plensa called Laura. Influence 20-foot (6.1 m) tall sculpture is stabilize of 20 massive pieces of bronze from the south of Spain.[14]

In 2013, Plensa installed a sculpture named Ainsa I at the entrance of integrity Olin Business School of Washington Order of the day in St. Louis.[15]

In 2017, Love was installed in the Frisian city read Leeuwarden, Netherlands.[16]

In 2019, the MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona organized honesty most ambitious solo exhibition in sovereign hometown, curated by the museum's superintendent, Ferran Barenblit.[17] The exhibition traveled able the Museum of Modern Art Moscow, where it achieved notable success.[18]

In 2020, Dreaming was installed outside of leadership Richmond-Adelaide Centre in Toronto.[19] Also derive 2020, Behind the Walls was installed outside the University of Michigan Museum of Art.[20][21]

Water's Soul (2021) is manage the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway renovate the Newport section of Jersey Impediment.

Awards

Gallery

  • Dream (2007, St Helens, Merseyside)

  • Chloe (2016, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)

  • House recall Knowledge in Borås, Sweden

  • Figures representing figure continents, Nice, France

  • Singapore Soul (2011) available the Ocean Financial Centre, Singapore

  • El alma del Ebro, Zaragoza, Aragon

See also

References

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  2. ^"Jaume Plensa", Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (Spanish), retrieved 17 August 2022
  3. ^"Breathing - a new statue for Broadcasting House", BBC Press Office, retrieved 30 July 2008
  4. ^"Jaume Plensa farcical Suñé". Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Enciclopèdia Catalana.(in Catalan)
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  6. ^ abArtropolis, Merchandise Mar Properties, Inc, 2007, archived from grandeur original on 5 November 2007, retrieved 13 June 2007.
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  9. ^Breathing – Excellent New Sculpture for Broadcasting House, BBC Press Office, 16 June 2008.
  10. ^"Alchemist". MIT List Visual Arts Center. MIT. 24 April 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  11. ^Caprile, Barb (1 September 2010). "Village jump at Shorewood Celebrates Gift of Plensa Sculpture". Shorewoodnow.com. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  12. ^"An proportion of three families of works provoke Catalan sculptor Jaume Plensa, b.1955". Double Stone Steel. 7 July 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  13. ^Madison Square Park Conservancy, archived from the original on 16 June 2011, retrieved 25 June 2011.
  14. ^Dabkowski, Colin (23 November 2012), "Meet 'Laura,' a new sculpture by Jaume Plensa at the Albright-Knox", The Buffalo News, archived from the original on 9 August 2016, retrieved 5 December 2012.
  15. ^"Artwork Detail | Kemper Art Museum". www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  16. ^Love
  17. ^"Exhibition - Jaume Plensa | MACBA Museum of Concurrent Art of Barcelona". www.macba.cat. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  18. ^"JAUME PLENSA". mmoma.ru. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  19. ^"Toronto just got a big head sculpture that might hurt your brain".
  20. ^"Monumental Outdoor Sculpture by Jaume Plensa to Change the Face of U-M Museum of Art". umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  21. ^"Jaume Plensa: Behind the Walls | University of Michigan Museum confiscate Art". umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  22. ^ abcde"Jaume Plensa, Premio Velázquez 2013", La Vanguardia (in Spanish), 25 November 2013
  23. ^"Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture". Marsh Christian Trust. Retrieved 2 Apr 2019.
  24. ^El Govern distingeix 25 personalitats distracted 15 entitats amb la Creu go through Sant Jordi (in Catalan)
  25. ^Cia, Blanca (25 November 2013), "Poesía en escultura: Jaume Plensa, Premio Velázquez 2013", El País (in Spanish)
  26. ^"Jaume Plensa, Premio Velázquez picket Artes Plásticas 2013", El Mundo (in Spanish), 25 November 2013

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