Original graphic works by Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa
Lucía
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Jaume Plensa
Carlota
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For the past thirty-five years, Jaume Plensa has produced a multifaceted body of work, creating pieces that speak to the capacity and beauty of humanity. By highlighting the deep connections between seemingly divergent cultures, the artist seeks to connect with his viewers on an intuitive level, exploring numerous dualities such as inside and outside, light and darkness, and earth and sky. His work ranges from intimate and delicate pieces to his monumental sculptures.
Lucía, Carlota,Berta, Carla, and Martina
Lucía, Carlota, Berta, Carla, and Martina belong to a series that, set against a backdrop of deep darkness, presents layered female faces, stripped of specific identity. They appear to float weightlessly, caught in a temporal and spatial suspension, which allows their intricate facets and nearly spectral quality to take center stage.
The juxtaposition of solid heads with ethereal ones, woven like a mesh, evokes the duality between our physical presence and the depth of our inner world: the spirit, the soul, the consciousness. In this way, these feminine faces transcend purely material representation to become portraits of that which constitutes us as human beings on an intangible and invisible level.
Plensa does not portray these figures as concrete individuals but as universal symbols of humanity. Each face is, in reality, a reflection of all, a surface where the viewer can project their own identity. This strategy generates an intimate relationship between the artwork and the viewer, where art becomes a mirror of the soul. Collectively, the resulting work invites an introspective, almost spiritual meditation on the very essence that shapes our humanity.
As Jaume Plensa himself commented in statements to an American gallery:
“I am talking about opposites, about contradictions... invisible with visible, immaterial with material, tangible and intangible. [I am] talking about something that has no volume, that has no weight, something that is completely invisible to our eyes, but is part of our hearts, which we can call soul [or] energy, maybe a spirit. Who knows? Can you imagine [having] the capacity to penetrate inside the volume of the head and perfectly understand the intimate space where our ideas, our dreams, everything we can imagine are? Perhaps we can dream about it.”