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JAUME
PLENSA
7
October - 24 December 2005
Duality
is one of the constants in Plensa's creative process,
in which he combines opposites (the material and
the immaterial, presence and absence, reason and
spirit) with the aim of eliciting emotions of
the viewer, appealing to sensorial factors and
to memory. His work is highly elaborate and personal,
and the spectator has to interact with the pieces,
touch them, enter them or walk around them.
Plensa's
work, occupying two exhibit spaces at CAC Málaga,
focuses on the human dimension and its relation
to its surroundings, often questioning the role
of art in society and the position of the artist.
By the same token, the close relationship between
the human body and 'the whole' is defined with
great clarity, as the artist himself explains
in the text to the exhibition catalogue.
This
Catalan sculptor transforms the physical space
into an extension of mental concepts. Through
his work, he carries out an exercise in memory.
A series of ideas and concepts, often dense and
involved, fill the artist's intricate and personal
work, whose result is volumetric and radiant.
The artist uses varied materials in his works,
such as resin, polyester, steel, iron, water,
glass or nylon, not because of the innate characteristics
of these supports, but on the basis of a need
to attain different modulations for his ideas
and thus obtain a differentiated spatial form
for each idea. Language is also a fundamental
element for Plensa, as he conceives of it as a
"container of memory". By the same token,
literature constitutes one of the main sources
of inspiration for his work, as reflected in The
Song of Songs and The Three Graces.
Silence
and light are likewise intrinsic and fundamental
aspects of his pieces, both elements comprising
recurring motifs that unify the exhibition. The
Wispern installation is one of the most spectacular
works in the exhibit, consisting of 44 cymbals
with engraved phrases and words - excerpts from
William Blake's Proverbs of Hell - upon which
droplets of water are constantly dripping, producing
a whispering sound whose aim is to transport the
spectator to a world of silence. On this occasion,
at the CAC Málaga exhibit, this installation will
be shown in its largest format to date, more cymbals
having been added to the piece since its initial
creation in 1998.
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