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	Jaume Plensa
		Jaume Plensa himself has recent insisted on this subject: "As a sculptor I basically work in the area of ideas, not with matter and forms, although each idea obviously demands its own material and form; however, these are not my main concerns".
		Plensa himself has noted how one of his recurrent obsessions is the idea of sculpture as "the best way to ask questions" And he has given us a beautiful emblem of this seminal idea in Firenze II, 1992, where a full question mark takes the form of a conceptual totem.
		Jaume Plensa (1999): "Fragen an Jaume Plensa', Danièle Perrier in the Wanderer Nachtlied.
	www.ffil.uam.es /jjimenez/Plensa2.htm (3535 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Reviews - REVIEWS: JAUME PLENSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Since then, his interests have shifted to industrial, architectural and domestic forms, such as heavy-duty receptacles and containers, doors and cubicles, and household furniture, all of which are often embossed with heady words or phrases taken from the artist's favorite literature.
		Plensa's recent efforts to lend his sculptures a translucent, radiant quality -- without losing their literary portentousness -- could be observed in the 39 large-scale sculptures on view at the Miró Foundation earlier this year.
		This is particularly apparent in Plensa's differently shaped resin panels, which each bear the name of a famous artist.
	hawkins.artnet.com /magazine_pre2000/reviews/bradley/bradley2-27-97.asp (457 words)

	Summer in Chicago: Millennium Park - Chicago-Sun Times Special Report
		Seventy-seven years later, the Buckingham Fountain is getting a companion -- Spanish conceptual artist Jaume Plensa's Crown Fountain, opening Friday as one of the signature elements of Chicago's Millennium Park -- that's also a kind of counterpoint, ushering the idea of a fountain into the 21st century.
		Plensa agrees that his materials for the fountain are cutting-edge, but insists that it's a mistake to pay too much attention to the technological innovations.
		Plensa chose the faces not for their conventional beauty, he says, but for their ability to represent Chicago's people.
	www.bsjeon.net /en/ChicagoSuntimes-News-Plensa20040712.htm (847 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Features - Prairie Smoke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Plensa uses a striking variety of materials in his work: light, bronze, alabaster, water, rope, cast iron, glass, steel, polyester resin and more.
		Plensa does not really expect viewers to read these texts very carefully, to recognize their source, or to absorb a message from them.
		Jaume Plensa is a gifted sculptor who has created a variety of attractive, theatrical work.
	deathstar.artnet.com /magazine/features/cassidy/cassidy2-18-04.asp (1641 words)

	UMass Amherst Spotlight Magazine
		Jaume Plensa is a Spanish artist who has had a lively career that began in the late 1970s.
		Plensa integrates a wide variety of materials such as iron, glass, bronze, and resin to take best advantage of the more intangible qualities of light and sound as well as the ideas that arise from spoken or written texts.
		Plensa was born in Barcelona in 1955, and lives and works in Barcelona and Paris.
	www.umass.edu /fac/spotlight/4.41.html (605 words)

	Chicago Tribune \| A transformation and regeneration
		The "body" through which Plensa sought to achieve this — he speaks of the piece in terms of "body" and "soul" — is composed of two glass-block towers, both 50 feet high, facing each other across a reflecting pool 232 feet long.
		Plensa, 48, was invited to do the $17 million project early in 2000, after a competition involving him, sculptor Maya Lin and architect Robert Venturi.
		For his largest public piece in the United States — a smaller one is in Jacksonville, Fla. — he chose to use the fountain and water as a metaphor, as he had a decade ago for a modest piece in England.
	www.chicagotribune.com /news/specials/millennium/chi-millennium-crown-story,0,5747105.story (835 words)

	Repeat - Millennium Park - Sculpture as Architecture/title>
		Anish Kapoor and Jaume Plensa rethink public sculpture for a media-rich age.
		Kapoor and Plensa share a concept of contemporary public sculpture that is both deeply architectural and obsessed with making the viewer more than a passive consumer of static objects.
		Plensa conceived the Crown Fountain not as an object, but as an environment.
	www.lynnbecker.com /repeat/Gehry/sculpture.htm (914 words)

	Jaume Plensa- 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Spanish conceptual sculptor Jaume Plensa has been chosen to create a "fountain for a new millennium" in Grant Park, adjacent to The Art Institute of Chicago.
		Plensa was selected from a group of internationally renowned artist and architects.
		"This remarkable artwork by Jaume Plensa will be a major addition to Chicago's world-renowned public art collection", said Michael Lash, Director of Chicago's Public Art Program for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
	www.dv-art.com /artists/plensa/mill-text.html (409 words)

	Color Kinetics : Lighting Systems : Print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Completed in July 2004, the fountain is a gift of the Crown and Goodman families, and is the inspired work of Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, who envisioned an interactive sculpture comprising glass, water and light.
		Plensa's previous projects had used LED fixtures, so he was comfortable with this technology."
		Plensa wanted the towers to appear light and translucent, with their internal structures reflecting light from behind the glass surface.
	www.colorkinetics.com /showcase/installs/print.htm?id=117 (499 words)

	kunstaspekte - informationen über kunst
		In Plensa’s work, letters, words and sentences are used like sculptural building blocks to attain a visionary power anchored in reality.
		JAUME PLENSA works in a wide range of media including sculpture, drawing, printmaking, projections, sound, text and light.
		Plensa has been commissioned internationally for permanent and temporary sculptures.
	www.kunstaspekte.de /index.php?action=termin&tid=10193 (439 words)

	The Jerusalem Foundation
		(Jerusalem, 5 December, 2002) The sculpture “Bridge of Light” by the Spanish artist Jaume Plensa was inaugurated recently at Mishekenot Sha'ananim by the Jerusalem Foundation.
		Plensa, born in 1955, works in Paris and Barcelona.
		Artist Jaume Plensa lights the candles of the Festival of Lights (Channuka) at the inauguration of his sculpture "Bridge of Light" at Mishkenot Sha'ananim
	www.jerusalemfoundation.org /print.php?id=154&from=news (525 words)

	BBC - Press Office - Breathing
		During the hours of darkness the cone will be lit so that it glows and at key times a fine beam of light will project from its base approximately 900 metres (3,000 feet) into the night sky (the limit set by the Civil Aviation Authority).
		As well as a memorial to international news journalists, Breathing is also metaphor for sound and communication and takes its inspiration from the adjoining spire of the Grade I listed All Souls Church (which it appears to invert) and the radio mast on the roof of the Grade II* listed Broadcasting House.
		The final form of Breathing is the result of a dialogue between the artist Jaume Plensa, the architect Sir Richard MacCormac and his team, and the curator of the Broadcasting House public art programme, art consultants Modus Operandi.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/04_april/01/skyline.shtml (710 words)

	Jaume Plensa: Twin Shadows
		Inspired by the concepts of dream and desire, Jaume Plensa will present his first solo exhibition in New York in ten-years, in a double exhibition held both at Galerie Lelong and Richard Gray Gallery.
		The installation consists of red and clear glass globes engraved with letters, which further explores the tension between the abstraction of dream and desire.
		Jaume Plensa was born in Barcelona in 1955.
	www.artincontext.org /listings/pages/exhib/x/dx03k3sx/press.htm (374 words)

	Jaume Plensa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Over US$160,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August.
		Jaume Plensa (born 1955) is a Catalan artist from Barcelona, Spain.
		One of his most notable works of art is the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jaume_Plensa (80 words)

	Millennium Park :: Art and Architecture :: The Crown Fountain
		Designed by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa and inspired by the people of Chicago, The Crown Fountain is a major addition to the city's world-renowned public art collection.
		Plensa adapted this practice by having faces of Chicago citizens projected on LED screens and having water flow through a water outlet in the screen to give the illusion of water spouting from their mouths.
		The collection of faces, Plensa's tribute to Chicagoans, was taken from a cross-section of 1,000 residents.
	www.millenniumpark.org /artandarchitecture/crown_fountain.html (292 words)

	UMass Amherst: Events > Jaume Plensa: Silent Noise
		Jaume Plensa was born in Barcelona in 1955 and lives and works in Barcelona and Paris.
		Jaume Plensa: Silent Noise was organized by the General Directorate for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in collaboration with the State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad (SEACEX), and curated by The Arts Club of Chicago.
		It was originally presented at The Arts Club of Chicago from January 20 through March 27, 2004, and was then on view at the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans from April 23 through June 20, 2004.
	www.umass.com /umhome/events/articles/4947.php (296 words)

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		Plensa, who was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1955, began as a sculptor making immense iron objects weighing tons, he has turned to more ephemeral materials like light, glass, wood, plastic, and neon.
		Plensa’s work, grounded in the poetry and movement of theater, creates a vessel for human memory as well as hopes.
		The artists in the exhibition are: Thomas Hirschhorn, Jaume Plensa, Xavier Veilhan, Leo Villareal, Robert Taplin and Cathy de Monchaux.
	www.e-flux.com /welcome/pbica/text_1.html (1398 words)

	Art in America: Sunday afternoon in the Cyber-Age Park: the city's new greensward features Frank Gehny's latest, plus ...
		Every few minutes a stream of water will pour from the lips of the image, and some children will station themselves happily beneath it, while others--and adults, too--wade with comparable pleasure in the water that has filled, to a level of two or three inches, the shallow basin at the foot of the towers.
		The Plensa and Kapoor selections bespeak the sound planning and critical rigor that went into creating Millennium Park in its entirety.
		Invited to the competition for the Crown Fountain, won by Plensa, were Maya Lin of Vietnam Memorial fame and Robert Venturi, one of the major figures of the postmodernist architectural movement.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_10_92/ai_n7576767 (1456 words)

	Repeat - Jaume Plensa's Crown Fountain n Chicago's Millennium Park
		In preparation for creating his Crown Fountain in Chicago's new Millennium Park, Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa made video portraits of the faces of over 1,000 Chicagoans.
		The fountain consists of two 50-foot high towers, created in collaboration with the Chicago architectural firm of Krueck and Sexton, that face each other across a 48-foot wide pool, flush with the sidewalk level.
		The thin layer of water that bubbles up from several pumps along the surface flows in an unbroken sheet to a razor-thin moat along the periphery where the water flows back down to recirculate.
	www.lynnbecker.com /repeat/Gehry/plensa.htm (272 words)

	Permanent Collection \| Jaume Plensa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Spanish conceptual artist Plensa draws upon a variety of media in his works, including glass, steel, bronze, water, light, and sound.
		He is known for both his intimate sculptures as well as large-scale public projects, including the Crown Fountain commission for the Millennium Park, adjacent to the Art Institute of Chicago.
		In this work, Plensa juxtaposes four danglling, fragile teardroop-shaped glass orbs with its title "androgen," a male hormone.
	www.kemperart.org /permanent/works/Plensa.asp (148 words)

	Jaume Plensa: Good Luck? - Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum : Expositie / Exhibition at GALERIES.NL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Nowadays Plensa is one of the outstanding protagonists of the mid-life generation of sculptors, whose ideas and leitmotifs exude a ubiquitous fascination and appeal.
		The most recent examples of his major public projects, which he produced as exterior sculptures or theatre sets, are Crown Fountain in Millenium Park in Chicago, and the stage design for “Magic Flute” in the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum.
		To accompany the exhibition, an approximately 120-page catalogue in German and English will be brought out that, in great detail, documents in words and pictures both the work process and the final exhibition.
	www.galeries.nl /expo.asp?exponr=19824 (425 words)

	UMass Amherst: Events > Jaume Plensa: Silent Noise - Opening
		Please join us to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Jaume Plensa: Silent Noise at the University Gallery.
		The exhibition features thirteen sculptures and number of works on paper by this Spanish artist who experiments with a wide variety of artistic practices and media to explore the sensory perceptions of the body.
		Plensa is fascinated by the ways we apprehend our environment both on a pre-verbal level and through formal thought and language.
	www.umass.edu /umhome/events/articles/4936.php (112 words)

	Richard Gray Gallery: Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Born in Spain, Plensa’s “cutting-edge” work reflects his Catalan origins.
		Though Barcelona is his home base, he has also lived and worked in Berlin, Brussels, in England (at the invitation of the Henry Moore Foundation), and France (at the invitation of the Atelier Alexander Calder).
		Plensa’s output, with installations in the USA, Europe, and Japan, and he is currently engaged in projects for the cities of Washington D.C., Chicago, Seoul, Stockholm, and Jerusalem.
	www.richardgraygallery.com /artist.asp?aID=81 (276 words)

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		The magic of "Talking Continents" comes from within, as each figure is wired with fiber optic LED lights in a variety of colors programmable to change, blink and glow faintly or shine boldly.
		Spanish Artist Jaume Plensa says the display represents the commonality in all mankind of similar wants and desires despite cultural or geographic differences.
		Artist Plensa says he is honored to have his work chosen by the city.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /news/news-article.aspx?storyid=10890 (435 words)

	City Mayors: Millennium Park - Chicago
		Millennium Park was described by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley as the crowning achievement of the vision set forth by the original founders of Chicago in 1837.
		Located near street-level along Chicago’s bustling Michigan Avenue, Plensa’s monumental, interactive Crown Fountain at Millennium Park is composed of two, fifty-foot-high illuminated glass block towers united by a fl granite pool measuring 232-feet long by 48-feet wide.
		Since 1996, Plensa has also applied his artistic vision to stage and costume design for some of the world’s most important operatic productions, including Falla’s Atlantida in Granada, Spain; S. Sebastian by Debussy in Rome; The Damnation of Faust by Berlioz in Salzburg Festpiele; and, Mozart’s The Magic Flute for the Ruhr Triennale.
	www.citymayors.com /environment/millennium_park.html (1180 words)

	Jaume Plensa - Carlos Garaicoa - Richard Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Jaume Plensa - Carlos Garaicoa - Richard Wilson
		A year after the show of works by Christian Boltanski and Anne Messager, Palazzo delle Papesse repeats the formula of the dual personal show, with works by Jaume Plensa on the first floor and Carlos Garaicoa on the second.
		In both cases, about half the works show are on public display for the first time, when not actually made for this specific space.
	www.sienaquietvilla.net /enghtm/popup/5.htm (170 words)

	Welcome to WESPEN Audio Visual Supply
		U.S. Equities Realty, award-winning Chicago architectural firm Krueck-Sexton, celebrated Spanish artist Jaume Plensa and BARCO collaborated on a state-of-the-art fountain incorporating LED technology at Millennium Park in downtown Chicago.
		Roark Frankel, Vice President of U.S. Equities and Project Manager for the Crown Fountain, stated, “Our client wanted to provide the people of Chicago with a memorable and incredibly special public place; a place to gather, reflect and, most of all, to build a greater sense of community.
		It was Jaume Plensa and his unique genius that created the inspiring concept for the Crown Fountain, and, along with Krueck-Sexton and a dedicated team of other specialty designers, engineers and vendors like BARCO, we hope to bring Plensa’s concept to life.
	content.infocommiq.com /affiliates/index.cfm?affiliateDomain=wespen.com&contSection=NEWSANDTIPS&contID=50AE9141-693C-40FE-9616A9478CAE263C (687 words)

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