Jaume Plensa

Jaume Plensa (Barcelona, 1955) is probably one of the most internationally renowned Spanish artists of our day. His multifaceted work covers a rich diversity of expressive registers, comprising sculpture, drawing, printmaking, installations, public works and set design. Plensa has also experimented with many graphic printing techniques – woodcut, embossing, etching, collage, photogravure – as his means of expressing a fresh and unmistakable personal language. This varied work has, since the mid-1980s, revolved around the enigma of the human body, a world in itself that is the receptacle of thought and memory, of spirit and emotions, and which is represented in nameless faces and figures – bearers, nonetheless, of unique identity. Since the mid-1990s, Plensa’s prints have been marked by a melding of words and images. His chief textual inspirations include Macbeth, The Song of Songs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Jaume Plensa has been awarded with Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas 2012 and Premio Nacional de Arte Gráfico 2013.