Jaume Plensa — Galerie Lelong
Plays on scale and breaths of transparency, Jaume Plensa’s sculptures redefine the space of Galerie Lelong, which is dedicating to him an exhibition at his own measure: monumental.
Jaume Plensa — 5 rêves, 5 désirs @ Lelong & Co Gallery from September 12 to October 25. Learn more In this project conceived for the gallery’s spaces, an unexpected dimension of the artist emerges. Born in Barcelona in 1955, Plensa has become widely popular, and his works are now part of the daily landscape of many cities. New York, Madrid, Bordeaux, Chicago… so many places inhabited by these faces and bodies—always truncated, pierced—that, revealing themselves only by détour, engage the dynamics of the gaze to instill a constant movement within the stillness of sculpture.While the artist’s now well-established method—since the 1990s he has invested in the world’s major art institutions—continues to explore anamorphoses and the morphologies of writing within public (and thus shared) space, its adaptation to the scale of a gallery renews our relationship with his work. It installs an intimacy brilliantly underlined by a scenography that plays with shadow and
In this configuration, the inflections of their closed-eyed faces, the sketched gestures and emotions, become the immediate signs of a macroscopic radiography, where one explores the fractures of matter to detect psychological traces.
For behind their gigantism and the weight of their bodies, the artist’s figures seem ready to whisper to us the most intimate secrets of a singularity that is also our own: immeasurably human…
