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Jaume Plensa SONG OF SONGS
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Albion Gallery
Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art
8 Hester Road
GB-SW11 4AX London
Großbritannien
fon 020 7801 2480
mhw@albion-gallery.com
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Jaume Plensa SONG OF SONGS
From 14th April, ALBION will present a new series of powerful installations by Spanish artist JAUME PLENSA – the artist’s first extensive solo show in London.
Built around Solomon’s SONG OF SONGS – a collection of poetry from the Bible – the exhibition offers a unique journey through Plensa’s world of ideas illuminated by text.
SONG OF SONGS is written into an impressive steel curtain that hangs the full height of the gallery space. The visitor will walk through the curtain enabling a reading of the text which becomes sonorous through movement and contact. In Plensa’s work, letters, words and sentences are used like sculptural building blocks to attain a visionary power anchored in reality.
HUNGER, INSOMNIA and DISEASE (The Three Graces), another installation in the show, is inspired by Oscar Wilde’s letters from prison. Three oversized human forms made of translucent resin and lit from within, loom over the visitor.
SELF-PORTRAIT AS O.W – a 3D portrait of the artist cast in artificial stone, sits in contemplation. Beside it, a solitary blown glass figure containing wine lies on the floor. It is GLASS MAN, another of Plensa’s enigmatic self-portraits.
SCALES echoes the famous large gong sculptures and the cymbals of Wispern (1999). Made of brass, the dishes are engraved with dualities – Land-Soul, Dream-Desire, Semen-Blood – in an attempt to weigh the unweighable.
JAUME PLENSA works in a wide range of media including sculpture, drawing, printmaking, projections, sound, text and light.
His solo museum exhibitions include the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, Arts Club of Chicago, New Orleans Center for Contemporary Art, Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Kestner Geseellschaft in Hannover, Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna, Baltic Contemporary Art Center in Gateshead, the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris and The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.
Plensa has been commissioned internationally for permanent and temporary sculptures. In July 2004, the City of Chicago saw the erection of one of his most significant public art commissions – The Crown Fountain in Chicago’s new Millennium Park. Video portraits of the faces of 1000 Chicagoans are displayed on two 50-foot high glass towers that face each other across a 232-foot-long, 48-foot-wide pool.
Currently, the artist is working on a major commission from the BBC. Breathing is a 48-foot-high inverted glass cone, etched with a text about silence written by the artist himself, rising from the roof of the new Broadcasting House building. At dark the cone glows and at key times a white light beam projects from its base into the night sky.
At a time when the artist is very much under the spot-light of the international art scene, a London solo exhibition is long overdue. With the fusion of words, images and lights the much heralded Plensa exhibition at ALBION’s exciting new space promises to be intensely poetic.
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