Jaume Plensa

JAUME PLENSA (Barcelona, 1955).
"Salt", 1998.
Iron sculpture Collage of different materials on paper.
Preserves author's frame.
Provenance Anrtiquari Gallery.
Measurements: 45,5 x 33 cm.
Salt reflects Jaume Plensa's ability to combine materials and techniques with a poetic and contemporary language. The work, which integrates iron and collage on paper, shows the artist's exploration of the relationship between form, texture and space, characteristic of his production since the late nineties, when he began to consolidate a style that mixes sculpture, installation and drawing, generating pieces full of symbolism and emotional resonance.
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. His work is inscribed in the tradition of sculptural abstraction and contemporary installation, where the material and the symbolic converge.
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).