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JAUME PLENSA
I in his eyes as one that found peace
Chicago - Richard Gray Gallery located in the John Hancock Center at 875 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 2503 presents the exhibition Jaume Plensa: I in his eyes as one that found peace, October 26 - December 1, 2006. The exhibition will travel to Richard Gray Gallery, New York in February 2007.
In the artist's first North American exhibition to focus primarily on drawings, Barcelona based sculptor Jaume Plensa re-examines both the medium of drawing itself and the concept of self portraiture. In a career that spans over 25 years, Jaume Plensa, creator of the Crown Fountain in Chicago's Millennium Park, has been the subject of solo museum and gallery exhibitions in France, Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Mexico, Portugal, Switzerland, Venezuela, Sweden, Argentina, Israel, the Netherlands and the United States. His work was last seen in Chicago in 2004, where his exhibition Silent Rain was held at The Arts Club of Chicago.
While Plensa calls these works drawings, his "Self-Portraits" layer digitally manipulated photographs appropriated from 19th century ethnographic journals with semi transparent, embossed vellum sheets and fragments of block letter text from Shakespeare's tragic play Macbeth. Finally, black enamel then drips down around the archetypal faces, and intertwines with the text. The elements thus layered express some of the nuances of the artist's complex self image. They also explore issues of oneness across ethnic divides, acknowledging our deep connection to each other and examining some of the darker qualities of humanity such as betrayal, the lust for power, and greed so forcefully illuminated in Macbeth.
COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLSTRATED CATALOGUE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
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Self-Portrait as H.B. II, 2006
Cast white marble
37 x 21 1/4 x 41 inches
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Self-Portrait with Rivers II, 2006
Cast white marble
37 x 21 1/4 x 30 3/4 inches
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Self-Portrait with Rivers IV, 2006
Cast black marble
37 x 21 1/4 x 30 3/4 inches
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Self-Portrait with Seas IV, 2006
Cast black marble
32 5/8 x 18 7/8 x 30 3/8 inches
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Self Portrait XIII, 2005
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XIV, 2005
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XVIII, 2005
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XIX, 2005
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXI, 2005
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXIV, 2005
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXV, 2005
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXVI, 2005
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXVII, 2005
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXVIII, 2005
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXIX, 2005
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXX, 2005
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXXII, 2005
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXXIII, 2005
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXXIV, 2006
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXXV, 2006
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXXVI, 2006
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXXVII, 2006
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXXVIII, 2006
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XXXIX, 2006
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XL, 2006
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XLI, 2006
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XLII, 2006
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XLIII, 2006
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XLIV, 2006
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XLV, 2006
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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Self Portrait XLVI, 2006
Mixed media on paper
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
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