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Jaume Plensa Human Landscape
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Hardcover, 107 pages
The Spanish artist Jaume Plensa explores universal questions of the human condition across a range of media and sculptural forms. Drawing on his interest in music, literature, and science, Plensa has developed a visual poetry that references the human presence both in body and soul. Whether through large cast iron sculptures that are placed in outdoor spaces or more intimate drawings inside a gallery, the artist evolves the beauty that exists borth in dreams and in direct observations. Plensa's sculptures are often constructed with letters from different world alphabets, text fragments, and poems. Placed in public spaces around the world, these typographic constructions are silent messengers, containing fragments of syntax to suggest that the impulse toward linguistic communication crosses all human boundaries.
The lead essay by Patricia Phillips, Dean of Graduate Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, positions Plensa in a contemporary dialogue of landscape design, figurative sculpture, and public space. Our own president and CEO, Jane O. MacLeod and Jochen Wierich, Chief Curator at Cheekwood contributed text as well, along with Susan Edwards, Executive Director and CEO at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and Mark Scala, Chief Curator at the Frist.
The Spanish artist Jaume Plensa explores universal questions of the human condition across a range of media and sculptural forms. Drawing on his interest in music, literature, and science, Plensa has developed a visual poetry that references the human presence both in body and soul. Whether through large cast iron sculptures that are placed in outdoor spaces or more intimate drawings inside a gallery, the artist evolves the beauty that exists borth in dreams and in direct observations. Plensa's sculptures are often constructed with letters from different world alphabets, text fragments, and poems. Placed in public spaces around the world, these typographic constructions are silent messengers, containing fragments of syntax to suggest that the impulse toward linguistic communication crosses all human boundaries.
The lead essay by Patricia Phillips, Dean of Graduate Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, positions Plensa in a contemporary dialogue of landscape design, figurative sculpture, and public space. Our own president and CEO, Jane O. MacLeod and Jochen Wierich, Chief Curator at Cheekwood contributed text as well, along with Susan Edwards, Executive Director and CEO at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and Mark Scala, Chief Curator at the Frist.
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