Jaume Plensa’s monumental portrait Behind the Walls & Nick Cave’s oversized bronze gramophone growing from his raised fist, suggesting the power to activate change.
Part of Frieze Sculpture (2019) @Rockefeller Center
June 7th, 2019
Hope for Change
Tag: jaume plensa
The Narrow Face
Echo, 2011
Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa’s sculpture Echo is named for the mountain nymph of Greek mythology who offended the goddess Hera – she kept her engaged in conversation and prevented her from spying on one of Zeus’ amours. To punish Echo, Hera deprived the nymph of speech, except for the ability to repeat the last words spoken by another. The sculptor created this monumental head of Echo with her eyes closed, seemingly listening or in a state of meditation.
Another work by Jaume Plensa: Crown Fountain, in Chicago
2801 Alaskan Way, Seattle, WA
June 15th, 2018
Chicago || At the end of the day [three]
Nothing like a Chicagoan [almost] smiling face looking down from their 50 feet twin LED towers and Louis Comfort Tiffany’s 1.6 million pieces of iridescent glass exquisite mosaic on Macy’s vaulted ceiling, to cool you down and prepare you for a good night’s sleep.
Crown Fountain is a black granite reflecting pool between two glass brick towers projecting images of Chicago citizens. It was designed by Jaume Plensa and is part of the Millennium Park’s public artworks since 2004.
The sparkling Tiffany Dome was installed on the vaulted ceiling of Marshall Field’s – now Macy’s on State Street, in 1907. It is the largest Tiffany mosaic in existence and contains more than 1.6 million pieces of favrile iridescent glass, patented in 1894 by Louis Comfort Tiffany. [source]
November 4th, 2017
The Humble Fabulist 