Galerie Lelong: Dialogues: Jaume Plensa and Carol Kino

21 December 2021 
  • Held on occasion of Jaume Plensa's solo exhibition 'NEST' at Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, join a conversation between...
    Held on occasion of Jaume Plensa's solo exhibition "NEST" at Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, join a conversation between the artist and art critic Carol Kino as they discuss Plensa's oeuvre that encompasses both intimate and monumental scales.
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  • About the Speakers

    Jaume Plensa creates sculptures and installations that unify individuals through connections of spirituality, the body, and collective memory. Literature, psychology,...

    Jaume Plensa creates sculptures and installations that unify individuals through connections of spirituality, the body, and collective memory. Literature, psychology, biology, language, and history have been key guiding elements throughout his career. Using a wide range of materials including steel, cast iron, resin, paraffin wax, glass, light, water, and sound, Plensa lends physical weight and volume to components of the human condition and the ephemeral.

     

    Plensa is highly active in projects in public space; his celebrated works can be seen at Bonaventure Gateway, Montreal, Canada; Millennium Park, Illinois; Olympic Sculpture Park, Washington; Burj Khalifa, United Arab Emirates; BBC Broadcasting Tower and St. Helens, England; Pearson International Airport, Canada; Daikanyama, Toranomon Hills, and Ogijima Japan; Shanghai IFC Mall, China; Albright Knox Art Gallery, New York; Rice University, Texas; Bastion Saint-Jaume, France; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida; among many other sites worldwide. The artist has presented solo exhibitions at prestigious institutions around the globe most recently at the MACBA–Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain and at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid in 2018 which travelled to the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia in 2019. Other solo museum exhibitions include Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Étienne, France; Institut Valencia d’Art Moderne, Spain; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas; Musée Picasso, France; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England; and the Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland. Jaume Plensa: Together was presented at the Basilica San Giorgio Maggiore in Italy as a collateral event of the 56th Venice Biennale. The artist was honored at the Hirshhorn New York Gala in 2019 and received the Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts from the Ministry of Education and Culture, Madrid, Spain, in 2013, among other accolades. A documentary feature of the artist’s life and work Jaume Plensa: Can You Hear Me? (2020), directed by Pedro Ballesteros, was released last year.

     

    The artist was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1955, where he currently lives and works.

  • Carol Kino’s writing about art has appeared in a wide range of publications, including WSJ., T, the New York Times,...

    Photo: Lisa Blas.

    Carol Kino’s writing about art has appeared in a wide range of publications, including WSJ., T, the New York Times, 1stdibs, Ursula, the Atlantic, Slate, and many different art magazines, from The Art Newspaper to Art + Auction. Her first book, The Fair-Haired Girls: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines will be published by Scribner in 2023. In 2019-2020 she was a Cullman Center Fellow in residence at the New York Public Library.