Jaume Plensa in Montserrat

Jaume Plensa will install a sculpture in the atrium of Montserrat

Jaume Plensa will install a sculpture in the atrium of Montserrat

The sculptor Jaume Plensa will install next May a sculpture in the atrium of the basilica of Santa Maria de Montserrat and, at the same time, will inaugurate an exhibition in the Pere Pruna art space of the Montserrat Museum.

The director of the center, Father Josep de C. Laplana, explained to Efe that the sculpture, which represents the face of the daughter of a friend of his, will be placed when the pavement of the atrium is finished and will remain in that place six months. Subsequently, it will be decided if the work remains or changes its location.

The installation of this piece on the outside of the basilica will culminate the restoration of the atrium, where in recent months sculptured, sgraffito materials have been cleaned and the marble pavement has been repaired. Father Laplana has indicated: “Whether or not the work remains depends, first, on Jaume Plensa, and then on the community. It is a decision that should not be taken hastily. ”

The relationship between the Benedictine community and the sculptor arose as a result of the organization of some conferences, to which, finally, the artist could not attend because he was traveling, and then “there was talk that he could plant one of his sculptures for six months in Montserrat “. Regarding the exhibition, which can be visited until November, he said that he will have a selection of drawings and graphic work.

Born in Barcelona in 1955, Jaume Plensa is today one of the creators of monumental works more recognized in the world, although “before anything” is considered a sculptor. His references include literature, poetry, music or thought and his works have to do with the “physical and spiritual essence, conscience, moral codes or the relationship of being with nature.”

He exhibits regularly in galleries and museums in Europe, the United States and Asia, and a significant part of his work is exhibited in public spaces, with pieces permanently installed in cities in Spain, France, Japan, England, Korea, Germany, Canada, United States United or China.

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Plensa returns to Barcelona

The Senda Gallery exhibits bronze sculptures of faces of young girls

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The Barcelona sculptor Jaume Plensa stars in an “intimate exhibition” at the Senda Gallery in Barcelona in which she shows sculptures of faces of young girls sculpted in a wooden mold that then goes to bronze to convey a new, more organic aesthetic, explained the artist in Press conference on Tuesday.

The exhibition ‘El bosc blanc’, which can be visited until the end of January, brings together works of a smaller scale than Plensa usually works and is a ‘tribute to the individual within the community’, which has resembled a forest, where all the trees look the same, but each one has its singularities.

In the same way, he has said that it happens in a society where “when a person disappears, countries, continents and libraries disappear: all the imaginary that treasures in their interior”, observed the sculptor, who has emphasized that the exhibition is intimate and seeks dialogue with the visiting person to complete.

The works have been finished this year and show the faces of young girls carved in a mold of wood that then goes to bronze complete with a base also made of wood and covered with a white patina to inspire serenity, sweetness and air of purity.

Regarding the materials, he stressed that they are not an end in itself: “I have never been faithful to a material”, commented the sculptor, who recently announced his decision to temporarily give away the work of ‘Carmela’ in front of the Palau de la Catalan Music.

The artist has accompanied the sculptures with an action on the walls in which he has drawn juvenile faces made with graphite directly on the wall to wrap exposure based on real faces of girls.

Girls between 8 and 14 years old

“They are always girls between 8 and 14, which is when beauty changes at incredible speed, it is in transit, they are girls who are no longer, but they are not women,” says Plensa, who always creates sculptures with her eyes closed to convey introspection and spirituality.

In the exhibition, “the pieces appear a little raised to appear to be reflected in a liquid soil,” in an exercise of unifying architecture with space not only to show works, but to give a special perfume and energy, has said .

According to Plensa, each of the works – ranging from 30,000 to 380,000 euros – has the ability to survive on its own and could live in hostile environments. “Barcelona was generally distracted in culture,” the sculptor lamented, asked about the tensions generated by his work in the field of contemporary art in the Catalan capital.

In the thread of this question, he referred to a joke in the New Yorker magazine in which a pharaoh jokes about the possibility of going down in history with what had saved the community: “Everything that is related to culture seems Is expensive, and the politician lacks the courage of the risk of culture. ”

Culture, a “great absence”

“Culture has become a great absence, not only here, but throughout Spain,” deplored Plensa, who has opined that when there is no money, it can be supplied with imagination.

“Here or everyone agrees or never does anything,” observed Plensa, who, in turn, praised the diversity of positions and positions, which he said he prefers in the face of uniformity.

However, he stressed the need to import the role of American civil society in which more initiatives are activated through the support of citizens and their donations in an exercise that promotes diversity.

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Plensa in Barcelona

Barcelona negotiates stay with the ‘Carmela’ by Jaume Plensa

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Carmela stays. For now, another month. Jaume Plensa sculpture, which has conquered so many locals, some of whom have collected many signatures to remain in its temporary location in front of the Palau de la Musica-, would go to the United States next day 22. A crane and trucks would be required to begin dismantling for transport. But finally Carmela, although it was created by Plensa (Barcelona, 1955) from a Barcelona girl face measures 4.5 meters high, is going to stay until 29 October in Barcelona. And even then you have to travel far for commitments made in the United States, in Michigan, may return. At least that is the wish of the City of Barcelona, which is negotiating with the artist for Carmela definitive form part of Barcelona’s landscape.

The deputy mayor of Enterprise, Culture and Innovation of Barcelona’s City Hall, Jaume Collboni, which recently entered the city government after the pact of the party he heads, the PSC, with common Ada Colau, convened a press conference yesterday afternoon in front of the sculpture Carmela to explain that they are negotiating with #Plensa. The first step and clear indication of their intentions is that Carmela one month stay while holding talks. And in any case they want to recognize the value of the enormous path Plensa, “which has international recognition and yet is not fairly represented in the city of Barcelona”. And they want to do with him negotiating the acquisition of a representative work to enjoy all Barcelona. Obviously, the number one priority is to be Carmela remain on the streets of the city for good.

Collboni said that Barcelona is indebted to the sculptor, whose works have been installed in major cities around the world, from Venice, Shanghai or Rio de Janeiro Boston and Chicago, but in Barcelona has only a work of previous stages to the now, as the metal trunk and bullets cannon installed on Passeig del Born, dating from 1992. However, the facility last April Carmela at Sant Pere més Alt has made it the public itself that ask a sculpture. Carmela was part of a Plensa exhibition organized by the Palau de la Música, which every year riding a dialogue with an artist. A sample that included three other sculptures in the Palau and has finished putting Carmela in Barcelona’s imagination.

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Plensa statue in Miami

The giant head has lived a year and a half in Chicago

Jaume Plensa statue (Chicago)

In his first appearance, now just over three years ago, this gigantic head of almost twelve meters high, creating the Catalan Jaume Plensa, emerged from the water at the beach in Rio de Janeiro, in front of the Christ of Corcovado and scanning the bread Sugar. For those things of art, city of wind and icy winters long and was then installed in a central location in Chicago.

Despite the appreciation of the locals -like it or not, nobody is going unseen- Awilda you move again 18 months later. He goes in search of the Miami Heat.

This monumental piece took -equivalent to four floors-story home in the Millennium Park in the metropolis of Illinois in June 2014. He came to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Crown Fountain, a permanent composition of Jaume Plensa located in the same enclosure that opened in 2004.

The Crown Fountain, turning it into a national icon and benchmark consists of two glass towers -15.2 meters each- where images of a thousand Chicago residents are projected. The initiative was formally called commemorative portraits 1004. This was because Awilda traveled together with other colleagues, smaller and make the bags while her. Paula will go to Washington-to the National Portrait Gallery- while Agnes and Laura return to Europe to participate in an exhibition at the Museum Max Ernst, near Cologne (Germany), confirmed yesterday the same Jaume Plensa by telephone.

Awilda stays in the United States. The acquired Jorge Perez, head of the real estate firm The Related Group, which yield at least a couple of years the Museum Park for display. His final home seems to be the Perez Art Museum of the city of Florida.

The artist takes a more positive view of this temporal experience, located in the key qualifying place in Chicago, at the intersection of Madison Street and Michigan Avenue. At this junction, emphasizes, “it is where the numbers change from north to south, is the city Ecuador”. Hence it has made an impact among the inhabitants of the great architectural city and its visitors.

The figure, composed of a dozen pieces, began to dismantle Monday and take several days to complete the operation.

In social networks they have already begun to appear reviewed their stay and go. There are mixed feelings. Some say they feel relief because they felt intimidated, but begins to dominate an opinion Awilda affection.

“It is a nice symbol that takes you from the busy loop (elevated train) to a meditative space,” wrote the tourism specialist Kym Spilker. “I feel calm and gives me peace and community,” Stephanie interjected photographer Bassos chicagoist.com on the website.

“People realize that a piece like when you go,” says Plensa. “In his absence the sculptor adds they will miss and will realize what they appreciated. When they ask what is this? But the disappearance, observed the gap and give an extraordinary value. ”

If the 1,000 citizens reflected in the two glass towers are ordinary people, Awilda is too. Like all figures Plensa, his inspiration comes from a real person. In this case, a girl who was twelve at the time, and neighboring Dominican origin of Barcelona.

“I’m always inspired girls of eight, twelve or fourteen years, sometimes slightly higher but with something particular as an idea for the future. I see the future in women, “remarks the talk.

As in other compositions, Awilda has his eyes closed. Not that I want to see the beautiful surroundings, but tries to provoke in the viewer’s search for inner beauty.

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