Jaume Plensa

Jaume Plensa

Jaume Plensa i Suñé (born August 23, 1955 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish sculptor and artist from Catalonia .

Life

Plensa was an art student in Barcelona at the Escola de la Llotja and the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi . He continued his training at the Henry Moore Foundation in England and then at the Alexander Calder studio in Saché , Indre-et-Loire .

Plensa lives and works in Barcelona, ​​where in 1980 the Fundació Joan Miró had its first exhibition. He also taught at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris , among others . His work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries around the world.

Exhibition locations (selection)

Sculpture " Alchemy ", 2006, (exhibited at Buga 2011 Koblenz)

• Arts Club Center Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago , Illinois , USA
• Baltic Center for Contemporary Art , Gateshead , England 1996
• Des Moines Art Center , Des Moines , Iowa , USA
• Fundació Joan Miró , Barcelona
• National Gallery of Jeu de Paume , Paris
• Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Halifax , England
• Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
• Kestner Society , Hanover
• Kunsthalle Mannheim , Mannheim
• Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg
• Malmo Konsthall , Malmo
• Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR , Brühl
• Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon , Lyon
• Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain (Nice), Nice
• Musee des Beaux-Arts de Caen , Caen , France
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia , Madrid
• Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna , Vienna
• San Giorgio Maggiore Biennale 2015 , Venice
• Toledo Museum of Art , Toledo (Ohio) , Ohio , USA
• University of Salzburg , Dietrichsruh, Awilda 2010
• Plaça Lidia Armengol, Andorra la Vella , Andorra , 7 poetes 2014.

Works (selection)

Tryptic (2009), Salzburg

Body of Knowledge (2010), Frankfurt am Main

• 1986: CUC. Steel sculpture made from technical finds in the Jardins de Cap Roig. Palafrugell , Spain
• 1996: Blake in Gateshead. a laser beam that now and then shines into the sky above the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art. in Gateshead
• 1998: Gemelle. Villa Celle , Santonato di Pistoia , Italy
• 2001: Magritte's dream. Aino train station, Fukuroi , Japan
• 2001: My house in Torrelavega. in a roundabout in Torrelavega , Cantabria , Spain
• 2002: Glass soul / Mr. Net. an interactive sculpture in the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Technology (HPI) of the University of Potsdam , Potsdam-Babelsberg
• 2002: soul? Sculpture on the art trail MenschenSpuren in Neandertal
• 2002: Light Bridge. in the village of Mishkenot Sha'ananim , Jerusalem
• 2003: As one. at Lester B. Pearson International Airport , Toronto , Canada
• 2004: Crown Fountain , black granite fountain between two towers made of glass blocks in Millennium Park , Chicago. The towers are 15 meters high and are illuminated from the inside with LEDs to show digital video scenes.
• 2006: Jerusalem. Installation. Es Baluard , Barcelona .
• 2007: Conversation à Nice. seven illuminated sculptures representing seven continents on 9-meter-high masts on Place Masséna in Nice.
• 2007: Kaspar's Tree. Iron sculpture in front of Kaspar Hauser's house in Ansbach
• 2008: El alma del Ebro , Expo 2008 , Saragossa . The eleven-meter-high, accessible metal figure consists of white painted steel letters.
• 2008: nomad. Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA.
• 2008: Breathing. made of glass and steel was inaugurated on June 16, 2008 on the roof of a new building (Egton Wing II) of the BBC's Broadcasting House in London by Ban Ki-moon in honor of the journalists who were killed on duty. Every evening at 10 p.m. GMT , a beam of light is sent from the sculpture a kilometer high into the sky during the half-hour broadcast of the BBC News at Ten .
• 2009: Participation in the open-air exhibition Blickachsen in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe with the sculpture Nosotros (We).
• 2009: The Dream. a 20 meter high and 500 tonne sculpture made of white dolomite , depicting the neck and head of a young woman with her eyes closed in meditation. This white figure is intended to contrast with the black past of the Sutton Manor Colliery (coal mine) in St Helens , Merseyside on which the sculpture was erected. The former colliery is located on the M62 motorway pretty much in the middle between Liverpool and Manchester .
• 2010: Awilda . a 5 meter high head of a woman made of 20 slices of white Spanish marble with negroid features in the inner courtyard (Dietrichsruh) of the University of Salzburg .
• 2010: Body of Knowledge. an eight-meter-high walk-in sculpture made of white painted steel on the central square in front of the lecture hall building on the Westend campus of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Eight different alphabets and character systems were used by the artist in this network of letters.
• 2010: Spiegel I and Spiegel II , two white painted figures made of stainless steel, each 377 × 235 × 245 cm, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA.
• 2012: Laura , a 6-meter-high, 32-ton, white marble sculpture consisting of 32 parts, Albright-Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo , New York , USA.
• 2012: Grand latent blanc , white fiberglass. Pilane, Tjörn , Bohuslän , Sweden.
• 2012: Large sculpture Air-Earth, glowing from the inside, in Bamberg , Obere Mühlbrücke.
• 2014/2015: Jaume Plensa: The Secret Heart. Large heart (diameter: 27 meters) made of parachute silk. Gas boiler in the Augsburg-Oberhausen gasworks, H2 - Center for Contemporary Art and Schaezler Palace .

honors and awards

• 1990 Premio Ojo Crítico of the Spanish National Radio (RNE) in the plastic division.
• 1993 Knight des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres , Ministry of Culture of the French Republic.
• 1996 Award from the Calder Foundation .
• 1997 National Art Prize, Generalitat de Catalunya .
• 2005 Honorary Doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago .
• 2007 Prize from the Heitland Foundation , Celle.
• 2009 Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture, London.
• 2013 Iserlohn Art Prize .
• 2014 Honorary doctorate from the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi .

Fonts

• Jaume Plensa. Sombras y textos. Galaxia Gutenberg - Circulo de Lectores, Barcelona 2008.
• Jaume Plensa. The Crown Fountain. (With texts by Keith Patrick and illustrations by Keneth Tanaka.) Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2080-9 .

literature

• Good luck for? for the exhibition of the same name in the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum . Duisburg, ISBN 3-89904-149-6 .
• Jaume Plensa: The inner view. (With contributions by Patrick Blümel, Jaume Plensa, Achim Sommer and Jürgen Wilhelm.) Wienand-Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-8683-2360-3 .
• Jean Frémon uae: Jaume Plensa, une âme, deux corps, trois ombres . Catalog of the Lelong Gallery. Paris 2006, ISBN 2-86882-076-X .
• Bernd Gutmann: Jaume Plensa: Eight Poets in Bamberg . Goldmann, Bamberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-039531-4 .
• Christian Scheffel: Jaume Plensa: Thirteen Doubts. English Church Cultural Center, Bad Homburg 2005, ISBN 3-926546-46-8 .

Web links

Commons : Jaume Plensa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Jaume Plensa in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website Jaume Plensa
• Millennium Park. Art and Architecture: The Crown Fountain (engl.)
• Blickachsen 7, Germany
• Jaume Plensa 2013 in the Villa Wessel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Speech art for the campus. In: FAZ . December 17, 2010, p. 42.
2. ↑ Jaume Plensa: the secret heart, 2014 ( Memento from August 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Jaume Plensa - The Secret Heart - The Secret Heart, 2014 ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).