Recipient of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award
For every artist who has earned and sustained widespread critical acclaim and captured devoted international attention, there comes a moment when the poetic consideration of their work within a larger, longer historical framework arrives: More than merely converse with, how might they be considered within the ambiance of the masters and monuments of eras past? The canonical procession that is the history of art ebbs and flows with time, with generations, but certain navigable passages run deep. Perhaps, such a moment of poetic consideration is now appropriate for Jaume Plensa.
Born in 1955, the Catalan artist is best known as a sculptor, though drawing, prints, set design, installations, and architectural collaborations are vibrant within his repertoire. He is a part of one of the most gifted and acclaimed generations of sculptors we have known—most of whom were established before the dawn of the millennium and whose practices have flourished globally in recent decades. . .
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