Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa ( born August 23, 1955 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish sculptor and artist from Catalonia.
Life
Plensa was an art student in Barcelona at the Escola de la Llotja and the Reial Academia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi. He continued his education at the Henry Moore Foundation in England and then in the studio of Alexander Calder in Sache, Indre- et- Loire continued.
Plensa lives and works in Barcelona, where in 1986 held his first exhibition. He taught, among other things at the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris. His works have been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries around the world.
Venues (selection)
- Arts Club Center Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England 1996
- Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, United States
- Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
- Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
- Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Halifax, England
- Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM ), Valencia, Spain
- Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover
- Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
- Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
- Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
- Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
- Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain (Nice ), Nice
- Musée des beaux -arts de Caen, Caen, France
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
- Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Vienna
- Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo (Ohio ), Ohio, United States
- University of Salzburg, Dietrichsruh, Awilda 2010