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The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando has chosen the Catalan artist Jaume Plensa as a full academician for its sculpture department. His candidacy was proposed by the sculptor Juan Bordes and the professors Simón Marchán and Víctor Nieto.
According to a statement from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Jaume Plensa (Barcelona, 1955) held his first individual exhibition in 1980 and was a professor at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He also regularly collaborates as a visiting professor at the School of the Art Institute at the University of Chicago.
In addition, he regularly exhibits in some of the most prestigious museums, art centers and galleries in Europe, America and Asia, and has won important national and international awards such as: Medaille des Chevaliers des Arts et Lettres de France (1993), Prize of the Fondation Atelier Calder (1996), National Prize for Culture of Visual Arts of the Generalitat de Catalunya (1997).
In 2005, he was named a Doctor Honoris Causa by the School of the Art Institute of the University of Chicago, Mash Award for Public Sculpture (2009), National Prize for Plastic Arts (2012), National Prize for Graphic Art (2013), Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts (2013), City of Barcelona Award (2015), Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Barcelona (2018).
Jaume Plensa’s work cannot be explained without experimenting with new materials. From 1986 he started working with glass, resins, water, light and sound. An important facet of his artistic output was developed in the field of sculpture in public spaces, with works in cities in Spain, France, Japan, England, Korea, Germany, Canada and the United States.
The Crown Fountain in Chicago’s Millennium Park is one of his major projects and one of his most famous. In 2005 he made Breathing for the BBC in London; in 2007, Conversation à Nice at Place Masséna in Nice; the following year Alma del Ebro for Expo Zaragoza; in 2009, Dream in St. Helens; World Voices (Dubai), Ogijima’s Soul (Ogijima) and Awilda (Salzburg) in 2010; Houston City Tolerance and Echo at The Madison Square Park, New York, then at the Seattle Art Museum, in 2011; Mirror at the University of Houston and Olhar nos meus Sonhos in Rio de Janeiro in 2012; the following year, Wonderland in the city of Calgary; in 2018, Julia at Plaza Colón in Madrid.
For more than four decades, Jaume Plensa’s work has reigned supreme for the diversity of its expressions, be it large sculptures, public commissions, sets and costumes for opera, or the most intimate part consisting of drawings, prints, artist’s books and multiples on paper.
This creative plurality, gathered in the writing, as well as the ambivalence of the meanings that permeate his work, are part of a strategy to redefine artistic functionality, articulated around the sign, the word and the body.
Source: La Verdad
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