Art Square and Neighborhood
Jaume PLENSA
The eponymous text carved into EVEN SHETIA, a large, rounded rock placed on a slope in the center of Art Square, is Hebrew for “foundation stone,” referring to the point at which creation of the world began, as told in Judaism. At sundown, a single mysterious ray of light is released high up into the night sky. Gazing up at this column of light, one intuitively realizes that this place is part of a world all under the same sky, and part of the vast expanse of the cosmos.
Photo: Oyamada Kuniya
Jaume PLENSA
Born 1955, and currently based, in Barcelona, Spain. Plensa studied at Llotja School of Art and Design and Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts (Barcelona). He has taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (France) and as a guest professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (US). His monumental sculptures are sited in public spaces worldwide. Recent works include Behind the Walls, 2018 in historic Rockefeller Center (New York City, US, 2019) and Museo Nacional de Arte (Mexico City, Mexico, 2019-20), Julia, 2018 (Madrid, Spain, 2018-20) and Voices, 2019 (New York City, permanent installation).
2010
Mixed media
150×150×200 cm
