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| The Traitor, 2000 57.5 x 50 cm |
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| Overflow II, 2006 223 x 245 x 255 cm |
Jaume Plensa is a Catalan sculptor and artist inspired by poems of Blake, Baudelaire, Ginsberg, Goethe and Léon Felipe. He incorporates language, lights and installation to his work making the sculptures seem as a play of light and shadows.
These images, although they don't do justice to the artist and his incredible body of work consisting of sculptures, prints and etchings, have an extraordinary aura of language being transformed into ambient structures. His techniques of overlaying japanese tinted Arakaji paper on top of collaged lettering, in the case of The Traitor, is a great inspiring technique for my practise. Sculptures consisting of painted, metal lettering are also a strong reference point.
Hopefully, I can still visit his permanent exhibition in Yorkshire Sculpture Park soon.
Images courtesy Jaume Plensa
