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Plensa, Jaume. VEGAP, Madrid 2024
Jaume Plensa 61
TECHNICAL DATA
Author: Jaume Plensa (Barcelona, 1955)
Title: Jaume Plensa 61
Year: 2019
Technique: i4-ink printing. Box-sculpture made of rigid moulded polyurethane with a matte black mineral finish. Closure with neodymium magnets. White pedestal with the artist’s name in relief.
Size: 32 x 50 cm
Weight: 15 kg (total weight of work)
Jaume Plensa 61 is an artist’s book signed by the artist and published by ARTIKA with a limited print run of 2,998 copies. It consists in three pieces, the Book of Art, the Book of Studies and a sculpture-case which holds the two volumes. It presents a visual and emotional survey of the artist’s creative process, spanning from the initial idea to its subsequent materialisation and final exhibition.
In the artist’s words, Jaume Plensa 61 is “the portrait of a creative will. It is a great book because even though you see no works, some of them photographed, there is like a trace of them, as if they were the shadows of what is strictly needed to create works. The artist, at least in my case, does not base himself on the finished work but on the process.”
Jaume Plensa 61 es, en palabras del propio artista, “el retrato de una voluntad creativa. Es el gran libro porque, aunque no veas obras, fotografiadas algunas, hay como el rastro, como si fueran las sombras, de lo imprescindible para crear. El artista no se basa, al menos en mi caso, en la obra acabada, sino en el proceso”.