Jaume Plensa

JAUME PLENSA (Barcelona, 1955).
Untitled, 1987.
Aquatint etching on copper plate, copy 3/50.
Signed and justified by hand.
Measurements: 18 x 18 cm (print); 49 x 36 cm (paper); 62 x 48 cm (frame).
Jaume Plensa studied at the Escuela de la Llotja and at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Sant Jordi, both in Barcelona. His work focuses on the relationship between man and his environment, often questioning the role of art in society and the position of the artist. He currently resides in Paris, and has recently been awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has had solo and group exhibitions all over the world, including a retrospective at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in 2000. Throughout his career he has received numerous distinctions, such as the Medal of the Knights of Arts and Letters, awarded by the French Ministry of Culture, or the National Prize for Plastic Arts, from the Generalitat de Catalunya. His work is present in the best national and international galleries and art fairs, as well as in the main museums of Europe and the United States, such as the MOMA in New York, the Kemper in Kansas, the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the Palazzo Forti in Verona, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Barcelona or the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.