Jaume Plensa

JAUME PLENSA (Barcelona, 1955).
"Silhouette.
Photopolymer on Albacà paper, copy 32/90.
Signed and justified by hand.
Measurements: 30 x 43 cm; 44 x 53 cm (frame).

In Silhouette, Jaume Plensa resorts to a refined visual language to explore essential questions of his work: communication, knowledge and the transmission of experience. Two figures cut out in black face each other in a white, almost empty space, which enhances the symbolic character of the scene.

Plensa converts, by integrating the word into the form, an apparently everyday scene into a poetic reflection on the passage of time, the transmission of values and confidence in the act of moving forward. The work invites the viewer to complete the meaning, placing himself in that intermediate space where the image is transformed into thought.

Trained at the Massana School in Barcelona and later influenced by contemporary European sculpture, Plensa develops his own style where the human figure, signs and materials are simplified and reorganized in compositions that dialogue with the viewer both visually and conceptually. Plensa has exhibited internationally at leading institutions such as the Venice Biennale, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the MoMA in New York and the MACBA in Barcelona. His sculptures and drawings are part of such prestigious collections as the Tate Modern (London), Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid).