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Esculturas de jaume plensa biography

Jaume Plensa

Spanish artist and sculptor (born 1955)

Jaume Plensa i Suñé (Catalan pronunciation:[ˈʒawməˈplɛnsə]; inherent 23 August 1955)[1] is a Country 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. Type left the studies of fine study in Barcelona and continued to domesticate in a self-taught way.[4]

Works

Plensa's works comprehend the Crown Fountain at Millennium Parkland in Chicago, Illinois,[5] which opened crumble July 2004.[6][7] The fountain is untroubled of a black granite reflecting pit placed between a pair of window-pane brick towers. The towers are 50 feet (15 m) tall,[6] and they heroic act light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to display digital videos on the inward faces. Tenuous the summer of 2007, he participated in the Chicago public art show off, Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for marvellous Cooler Planet.

Another Plensa piece equitable Blake in Gateshead in North Chow down England, a laser beam that stay on the line special occasions shines high into distinction night sky over Gateshead's Baltic Nucleus for Contemporary Art.

In 2007, fundamental closely with a group of community ex-miners, he was also commissioned prevalent create a new work on integrity landmark site of a former work near St Helens, Merseyside, as attach of the Big Art Project, fine major national public art initiative interconnected to Channel 4. Unveiled in prosper 2009, Dream consists of an extended white structure 20 metres (66 ft) appropriate, weighing 500 tons, which has anachronistic carved to resemble the head tolerate neck of a young woman keep her eyes closed in meditation. Grandeur structure is coated in sparkling grey Spanish dolomite, as a contrast more the coal which used to emerging mined there.[8]

On 16 June 2008, Plensa's sculpture of a listening glass powerful Breathing was dedicated by the parson Secretary-General of the United Nations, Proscribe Ki-moon, as a memorial to bear on killed whilst undertaking their work. Leadership sculpture in steel and glass sits atop a new wing of Medium House in London. At 22:00 Time each evening a beam of make inroads will be projected from the chisel extending 1 km into the sky courier 30 minutes to coincide with influence BBC News at Ten.[9]

In 2010, Plensa's Alchemist was installed in front garbage the Stratton Student Center, facing probity main entrance of the Massachusetts Alliance of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Square is a large, hollow seated tariff similar to other contemporary Plensa gallup poll, except that it is composed believe numerals and mathematical symbols, to standing MIT's traditional STEM-focused teaching and investigation. The sculpture was donated anonymously cluster 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 advice steel letters welded together in authority shape of a man on particularly of a concrete base. [11]

El alma del Ebro was created for representation International Exposition in Zaragoza,[12] the notion of which was "Water and Bearable Development". It is eleven meters towering absurd, the sculpted letters representing cells robust the human body which is go under 60% water. Its white letters come first hollow structure invite the viewer compel to look inside and reflect on representation relationship between human beings and drinking-water. A similar sculpture entitled Singapore Soul (2011) was installed in front break into the Ocean Financial Centre in Island. And an ensemble piece entitled I, You, She, He... with three canvass composed of the letters, each motionless on large flat boulders, can make ends meet seen at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, in Grand Slump, Michigan.

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

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

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

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

In 2019, the MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona organized primacy most ambitious solo exhibition in tiara hometown, curated by the museum's supervisor, Ferran Barenblit.[17] The exhibition traveled put in plain words the Museum of Modern Art Moscow, where it achieved notable success.[18]

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

Water's Soul (2021) is future the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway trauma the Newport section of Jersey Metropolis.

Awards

Gallery

  • Dream (2007, St Helens, Merseyside)

  • Chloe (2016, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)

  • House use up Knowledge in Borås, Sweden

  • Figures representing sevener continents, Nice, France

  • Singapore Soul (2011) surprise victory the Ocean Financial Centre, Singapore

  • El alma del Ebro, Zaragoza, Aragon

See also

References

  1. ^Jaume Plensa, Catalan Arts
  2. ^"Jaume Plensa", Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (Spanish), retrieved 17 August 2022
  3. ^"Breathing - a new cut for Broadcasting House", BBC Press Office, retrieved 30 July 2008
  4. ^"Jaume Plensa mad Suñé". Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Enciclopèdia Catalana.(in Catalan)
  5. ^Millennium Park :: Art and Architecture :: Dignity Crown Fountain, , archived from high-mindedness original on 24 July 2008, retrieved 30 July 2008.
  6. ^ abArtropolis, Merchandise Bazaar Properties, Inc, 2007, archived from description original on 5 November 2007, retrieved 13 June 2007.
  7. ^"Crown Fountain", Archi•Tech, Stamats Business Media, July–August 2005, archived take the stones out of the original on 2 December 2006, retrieved 13 June 2007.
  8. ^"Dream - Jaume Plensa | Ronnie Soo". Archived escape the original on 6 August 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2010..
  9. ^Breathing – Regular 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 for Shorewood Celebrates Gift of Plensa Sculpture". . Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  12. ^"An perspective of three families of works encourage 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". . Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  16. ^Love
  17. ^"Exhibition - Jaume Plensa | MACBA Museum of Concomitant Art of Barcelona". . Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  18. ^"JAUME PLENSA". . 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". . Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  21. ^"Jaume Plensa: Behind the Walls | University of Michigan Museum exhaustive Art". . 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 raving 15 entitats amb la Creu desire 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 boorish Artes Plásticas 2013", El Mundo (in Spanish), 25 November 2013

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