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JAUME PLENSA / IN THE MIDST OF DREAMS
ESPOO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART FINLAND
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JAUME PLENSA / IN THE MIDST OF DREAMS
Espoo Museum of Modern Art , Finland
14.11.2012 - 27.01.2013
An exhibition designed for EMMA by the
sculptor Jaume Plensa (b. 1955, Barcelona).
“Many of my works reflect the dualism between
body and soul, subjects which feature widely in my work.
For instance, within my light works is a
somehow moving light.This could be the soul which we can never find within the
body.”
In the darkest time of the year, the
internationally acclaimed and awarded artist, who started his career in the
1980s, creates an exhibition in EMMA around the theme of light. The forty
individual sculptures as a part of installations created in 2004–2012
will fill most of the room for changing exhibition.
Shaped like human figures, torsos and heads
will engage in discussions and dialogues in the spacious room opening up to the
surrounding landscape. Plensa’s sculptures shape the immaterial. Through the
human figure, the artist explores universal themes of life: love, despair,
memory and language. In addition to light, other important elements in Plensa’s
works are letters and words. He sees a letter as a cell, with its own “cellular
memory”. He gets many of his influences from poetry (William Blake, Elias
Canetti), music and various soundscapes.
Created in steel, synthetic resin, glass
fibre, iron, bronze, alabaster, paper and light, the works offer a
cross-section of Plensa’s career as sculptor. He has also created numerous
works on paper as well as etchings. His other works include sets and costumes
for opera and theatre productions.
Plensa is well known for his public sculptures
and art projects around the world. The most notable examples include Crown
Fountain (2000–2004) in Millenium Park, Chicago; Breathing, 2005 at the BBC Building,
London; Ogijima’s in
Ogijima, Japan; World Voices, 2009 in Dubai; and Echo, 2011
in Madison Soul, 2009 Square Park, New York. He is currently working on
public art projects for Calgary, Houston and Seoul.
Plensa exhibits his works actively with
exhibitions in museums and galleries in Europe, the USA, Japan and Brazil.
Regular showrooms for Plensa’s works are Galerie Lelong in Paris and New York
and Richard Gray Gallery in Chicago and New York.
Hair-Ice (1999) by Plensa is shown in the
Saastamoinen Foundation’s collection display Red at EMMA.
You may visit to read Jaume Plensa’ s latest exhibition at Tampa Museum, 56 th
Venice Biennale, Galerie Lelong Paris and Galerie Lelong New York to click
below links.
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2016/04/jaume-plensa-human-landscape-at-tampa.html
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2015/05/jaume-plensa-together-at-56-th-venice.html
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2013/11/jaume-plensa-at-galerie-lelong-new-york.html
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SITTING TATTOO XI-2008
Polyester Resin, Stainless Steel and Light
Dimensions: 233 x 125 x 160 cm
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland ©
Jaume Plensa
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MARIANNA II, 2011
Alabaster
Dimensions: 183 x 65 x 66 cm.
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland ©
Jaume Plensa
CHRISTINA IV, 2012
Alabaster
Dimensions: 179 x 66 x 66
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland ©
Jaume Plensa
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SITTING TATTOO XI-2008
Polyester Resin, Stainless Steel and Light
Dimensions: 233 x 125 x 160 cm
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland © Jaume Plensa
NUAGE IV , 2012
Stainless Steel
Dimensions: 180 x 122 x 195 cm.
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland ©
Jaume Plensa
IN THE MIDST OF DREAM, 2009
Polyester Resin, Stainless Steel and Light
Dimensions: Variable Measurement
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland ©
Jaume Plensa
TWENTY-NINE PALMS 2007
Stainless Steel
Dimensions: Variable Measurement
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland ©
Jaume Plensa
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TWENTY-NINE PALMS 2007
Stainless Steel
Dimensions: Variable Measurement
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland © Jaume Plensa
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TWENTY-NINE PALMS 2007
Stainless Steel
Dimensions: Variable Measurement
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland © Jaume Plensa
SPEAK NO EVIL 2010
Polyester Resin, Stainless Steel and Light
Dimensions: 205 x 148 x 122 CM.
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland ©
Jaume Plensa
THE THREE GRACES I, II AND III, 2010
Painted Stainless Steel
Dimensions: 203 x 137 x 134 cm each
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland © Jaume Plensa
IN THE MIDST
OF DREAM, 2009
Polyester
Resin, Stainless Steel and Light
Dimensions:
Variable Measurement
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland ©
Jaume Plensa
ESPOO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART FINLAND
ESPOO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art is an
art museum maintained by the Espoo Art Museum Foundation. The foundation was
set up by the city of Espoo in September 2002 when the city’s visual art
operations and personnel were transferred to the foundation.
EMMA is a centre providing experiences and knowledge.
The premises in the WeeGee building offer a setting for high-quality
international exhibitions. The 5,000 square-metre exhibition space is the
largest in any museum in Finland.
EMMA displays its own collections as well as changing
exhibitions of contemporary and 20th century art, both Finnish and
international. Two art collections, EMMA's collection and the Saastamoinen
Foundation Art Collection, form the cornerstone of EMMA's operations.
A part of the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection
(more than 2,000 works in all) is on permanent display, partially in
changing, thematic exhibitions. The collection’s historical section comprises
Finnish classical modernism from the beginning of the 20th century, while part
of its contemporary art section includes international art. The collection is
among the foremost private collections in Finland.
EMMA's collection (approx. 2,500 works) includes
works on display in Espoo municipal offices, other public buildings, as well as
outdoor areas. Part of the collection is on display in the museum. The
collection was begun in the 1950s and concentrates almost entirely on Finnish
contemporary art.
The EMMA museum pedagogy department provides guided
tour services, teaching materials, activities, as well as events and other
projects. Lecture and teaching packages are available on request. Museum
pedagogical services are intended for all ages with the aim of increasing art
appreciation and supporting learning.
A fundamental part of EMMA's activity comprises
conservation, research, archiving and documentation.
http://www.emma.museum/en/museum
ESPOO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART FINLAND
DAY-NIGHT, 2012
Polyester Resin, Stainless Steel and Light
Dimensions: 800 x 153 x 131 cm.
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland ©
Jaume Plensa
DAY-NIGHT, 2012
Polyester Resin, Stainless Steel and Light
Dimensions: 800 x 153 x 131 cm.
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland © Jaume Plensa
DAY-NIGHT, 2012
Polyester Resin, Stainless Steel and Light
Dimensions: 800 x 153 x 131 cm.
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland © Jaume Plensa
THE THREE
GRACES I, II AND III, 2010
Painted
Stainless Steel
Dimensions:
203 x 137 x 134 cm each
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland © Jaume Plensa
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SITTING TATTOO XI-2008
Polyester Resin, Stainless Steel and Light
Dimensions: 233 x 125 x 160 cm
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland © Jaume Plensa
TELL AVIV MAN XX, 2008
Iron
Dimensions: 184 x 93 x 112 cm.
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland ©
Jaume Plensa
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CHRISTINA IV,
2012
Alabaster
Dimensions:
179 x 66 x 66 cm.
Epoo Museum of Modern Art Finland © Jaume Plensa
If I have time to visit Jaume Plensa's exhibition during this time I would like to listen Arvo Part Tabula Rasa - Ludus with this exhibition in the museum. I always dream when I may visit some exhibition that has to be music with exhibition together.
JAUME PLENSA
Jaume Plensa, born is Barcelona in 1955. From 1980 with
his first exhibition in Barcelona until today, he has lived and worked in
Berlin, Brussels, England, France, USA, and he currently shares his residence
between Paris and Barcelona.
He has been a teacher at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in
Paris and has also been a lecturer at many universities and art institutions.
He collaborates as professor invited at the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago.
Since 1992 he has obtained various distinctions and awards, both
national and international, notably his investiture as a Chevalier des Arts et
des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture (Paris, 1993), the National
Culture Award for Plastic Arts of the Government of Catalonia (Barcelona,
1997), Honorary Doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Chicago, 2005), the Mash Award for Public Sculpture (London, 2009), the
National Award for Plastic Arts (Madrid, 2012), and most recently, the National
Award for Graphic Arts 2013 (Madrid, 2013)
His sculptural work has gone through several stages developed
largely with recuperation materials, iron, bronze, cooper, … In 1986, he
started a series of cast iron sculptures, then he incorporated light and relief
written text. Recently his melting materials have been synthetic resin, glass,
alabaster, plastic, light, video and sound. He also has a large production of
works on paper and etchings.
Beside his sculptural oeuvre he is collaborating often working on
stage design and costumes for opera and theatre productions.
A significant part of Plensa’s production is set in the context of
public sculpture, a sphere in which he has works installed in Spain, France,
Japan, the United Kingdom, Korea, Germany, Canada, the USA, etc. The Crown Fountain, 2004, in
Chicago’s Millennium Park, is one of his biggest project, and undoubtedly one
of his most brilliant. In 2005 he finished Breathing, which is installed in the new BBC building
in London, in 2007 Conversation à Nice for the place Masséna in Nice,
(France), El Alma del Ebro for the Expo
Zaragoza, 2008, in Zaragoza, (Spain) and in 2009 Dream for St Helens,
Liverpool, (UK) and World Voices in
Dubai in 2009 (UAE), Ogijima’s
Soul in Ogijima, 2010, Japan, Awilda in Salzburg, 2010, Austria,Tolerance, for the city of
Houston, in 2011 (USA), and Echo for
Madison Square Park, 2011, in New York, Mirror,
2012, for the University of Houston, and Olhar nos meus Sonhos in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil in 2012 and most recently, Wonderland in the city of Calgary, Canada.
Currently he is exhibiting in the city of Bordeaux.
His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in
Europe, the United States and Japan: Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (Spain);
Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris (France); Henry Moore Sculpture Trust,
Halifax (United Kingdom); Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (Sweden); Städtische
Kunsthalle, Mannheim (Germany); Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon (France); Museo
Luigi Pecci, Prato (Italy); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (Germany); Museum
Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (Austria); Palacio de Velázquez - Museo
Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary
Art, Gateshead (United Kingdom); the Arts Club Center for Contemporary Art,
Chicago (USA); Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen (France); Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum,
Duisburg (Germany), Kunsthalle Mannheim Museum (Germany), Centro de Arte
Comtemporáneo, (Málaga); Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nice (France); IVAM
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, (Spain); The Frederik Meijer Gardens
& Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, (USA), The Nasher Sculpture
Center, Dallas, (USA); Picasso Museum, Antibes (France), The Yorkshire
Sculpture Park, (United Kingdom), Espoo Museum
of Modern Art,
Helsinki etc.
He regularly shows his art works at Galerie Lelong in Paris,
Galerie Lelong, New York and Richard Gray Gallery in Chicago and New York.
