UNTIL SUNDAY 19/3
F. BANCAJA. Pl. Gentlemen, 23
Fundación Bancaja centers this retrospective of Jaume Plensa in the influence that literature and letters have had on his artistic production. And it is that, Plensa's art is filtered by his favorite readings: Shakespeare, Dante, Baudelaire, Blake, Goethe… Also Estellés. Before entering the museum, in the street, ens rep l'escultura White nomad, what, like so many others, draw in the air the shape of a man with letters of the alphabet of different cultures. As in the hand that occupied the Abbey of San Gregorio Maggiore at the Venice Biennale of 2015 and which you can now see in the exhibition hall. Visitors will touch the letters when crossing a tinkling curtain made of the poem The song of songs with which he pays tribute to his mother and which gives way to the large floating bust of a woman who asks us to be silent. See the paradox here, a show full of words that calls for silence against a noisy world. Plensa says that "the word has this enormous power to exist even if it is not pronounced". Plensa's large sculptures made for public spaces have overshadowed his smaller work for galleries and it is precisely about this that Fundación Bancaja wants to shout loudly. And about his work on paper, the illustrations that weep ink made to illustrate the book are a real wonder Complete Theater of William Shakespeare(Galaxia Gutenberg), each one of them, associated with some concept discussed by the English author. Three small sculptures made during the pandemic close this review of the thirty-year career of one of the living Spanish artists with the greatest international projection. S.M.
