Plensa, Jaume.
Works of the artist.
Jaume Plensa was born in 1955 in Barcelona. He is an artist internationally known for his sculptural work. Throughout his life he has taught at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as well as lectured as a visiting professor at The Art Institute of Chicago. [+]
Plensa, Jaume
Jaume Plensa was born in 1955 in Barcelona. He is an artist internationally known for his sculptural work. Throughout his life he has taught at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as well as lectured as a visiting professor at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Throughout his life, his sculptures have undergone a material evolution, using iron, bronze, copper and more. In 1986, for example he began a series of sculptures made with iron, with unique materials such as light and written text. Recently he has worked with synthetic resin, molten glass, alabaster, stainless steel, marble, plastic, light, video and sound. He also has an extensive production of works on paper and graphic art.
He has been awarded various national and internationa prizes: the National Prize of Plastic Arts (Madrid 2012), the Medaille des Chevaliers des Arts et Lettres Ministry of Culture (France, 1993), Prize of the Fondation Atelier Alexander Calder. Saché (France, 1996), the Premi Nacional de Cultura d'Arts Plàstiques de la Generalitat de Catalunya (Barcelona, 1997), the Mash Award for Public Sculpture (London, 2009), and more recently, the Premio Nacional de Arte Gráfico (Madrid 2013), while he was invested with the Doctor Honoris Causa by the School of Fine Arts of The University of Chicago (Chicago, 2005).
Much of his sculptural work is exhibited in public spaces. He has works in major cities in Spain, France, Japan, England, Korea, Germany, Canada, The United States, and more. The Crown Fountain in Chicago's Millennium Park has been one of his major projects, and undoubtedly one of his most brilliant.
His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in Europe, The United States and Japan. He regularly exhibits his work at Galerie Lelong in Paris, Galerie Lelong in New York, and Richard Gray Gallery in Chicago and New York.
