November 11, 2013

JAUME PLENSA AT GALERIE LELONG NEW YORK




JAUME PLENSA: TALKING CONTINENTS AT GALERIE LELONG NEW YORK
November 1, 2013  –  December 14, 2013




JAUME PLENSA: TALKING CONTINENTS AT GALERIE LELONG NEW YORK
November 1, 2013  –  December 14, 2013
An immersive installation of new stainless steel sculptures, suspended cast paper heads, and recent drawings comprise Jaume Plensa’s solo exhibition, Talking Continentsat Galerie Lelong. These distinctive elements make a realized whole connected through the artist’s concept - formal language and dialogue - with the gallery’s physical space. As in all the artist’s works, the tension between the individual components - poetically imagined as islands or continents - and the overall installation encourages us to think about the ways in which we are linked as a collective humanity. Talking Continents demonstrates Plensa’s ability to create thought-provoking work that reimagines and represents the human figure with an original and innovative language.
Letters from world alphabets literally form the connective elements in Talking Continents, the multi-part stainless steel installation in the main gallery. This series of suspended sculptures are hand-assembled from die-cut letters of nine international alphabets, the shapes of which the artist finds very beautiful. The letters work to form a more complex figure that is not a singular individual but rather a universal embodiment of humanity. Talking Continents creates a place where people are encouraged to meet, observe, and contemplate while engaging in a dialogue that inspires inward reflection and also a sense of global unity. The idea of continents and their interconnectedness has accompanied Plensa’s work from the beginning. In the darkened gallery space, each work is illuminated to create striking light and mysterious shadows.
Installed in a circular configuration in the small gallery are a series of cast paper heads onto which Plensa has “hand-tattooed” words. The use of diverse letters, signs, and language in his work shows the intricacy of different cultures and also how people can encounter one another and through a universal language learn acceptance and tolerance. When creating these works Plensa allows the idea to drive the materials, never constricting himself to one medium. His oeuvre continues to expand, while remaining committed to a lifetime idea. Plensa says, “I never stand out for technique, I stand out for ideas. Ideas make a work contemporary, not technique.”
2013 marks a series of events for the renowned artist. At the end of May Plensa presented a cast iron sculpture, Rui Rui, in Venice for the exhibition, Glasstress: White Light/White Heat, a collateral event of the 55th Biennale. In June eleven sculptures were installed throughout the public spaces of Bordeaux, France for the exhibition Jaume Plensa in Bordeaux and two cast iron heads, Marianna W and Chloewere show in the UK. In 2014 recent works by the artist will be on view in Chicago to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Millennium Park, home of Plensa’s famed Crown Fountain.
Jaume Plensa was born in Barcelona in 1955. The artist has presented major solo exhibitions at numerous museums, including Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, United Kingdom; Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris; Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany; Institut Valencia d’Art Moderne, Valencia; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI; The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX; and Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland. In 2012 Plensa received the prestigious National Visual Arts Award of Spain. Plensa is also celebrated for his art within the public space. In 2012 and 2013 he installed sculptures in Calgary, Canada; Rio de Janerio, Brazil; Bamberg, Germany, and at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
You may  visit Jaume Plensa’s exhibition news at TampaMuseum, 56 th Venice Biennale, Galerie Lelong Paris and Espoo Museum of Modern Arts,  Finland 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




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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.