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The Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio) has acquired Spiegel (Mirror), a monumental, two-part stainless steel sculpture by the Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa. The word spiegel means reflective image or mirror in German. Plensa’s Spiegel features two identical figures mirroring one another

Jaume Plensa (Spain, 1955)

‘Spiegel’ (Mirror)

Jaume Plensa (Spain, 1955)

View of ‘spiegel’ at night

Jaume Plensa (Spain, 1955)Stainless steel sculpture‘Body of knowledge‘, 2010Yorkshire Sculpture Park

First major UK exhibition of Jaume Plensa (Spain, 1955)Stainless steel sculptures at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Jaume Plensa detail of ‘Body of knowledge‘, 2010

Jaume Plensa (Spain, 1955) Roots, 2014 Montreal CanadaHis large-scale sculptures are often conceived as transparent structures that blend in with the context of the local landscape. ‘House of knowledge’ is a central outdoor piece that utilizes steel letters to build a large human body, transforming the sculpture into architecture in which visitors can step in to. Many of the work incorporate light, sound and text elements to illustrate the notion of space in an immersive fashion

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Jaume Plensa ‘Nomade‘

Pappajohn Sculpture Park

Iowa

Jaume Plensa Le grand nomade

Antibes

Jaume Plensa (Spain, 1955)View of ‘Nomad’ at night

Jaume Plensa (Spain, 1955)Stainless steel sculpture‘Singapore Soul‘ (2011) Ocean Financial Centre

Jaume Plensa (Spain, 1955)

Stainless steel sculpture

‘ Yorkshire souls I, II and III’

Jaume Plensa (Spain, 1955) Campus Westend Frankfurt Detail

Jaume Plensa Close-up view of ‘Nomad’, 2010

Jaume Plensa El alma del Ebro,

Zaragoza,Spain

Jaume Plensa (Spain, 1955)Shadows I, 2006(Sculpture made of letters)The Great Cascade, Yerevan, Armenia

Jaume Plensa Alchemist Boston

Alchemist is related to other work by Plensa, which are made of stainless steel letters of the alphabet randomly arranged, painted white and arranged in the shape of a seated person with your knees up to your chest. However, instead of letters, the work of Plensa for MIT is created by numerical symbols, as a “tribute to all researchers and scientists” who have contributed to scientific knowledge and mathematics

Jaume Plensa Many of the work incorporate light, sound and text elements to illustrate the notion of space in an immersive fashion

Jaume Plensa, the famous

Catalan sculptor behind Alchemist, has made several similar sculptures. His works Roots, Nomad, House of

memory 2012, Body of

Knowledge, Mirror 2012,Soul 2011, they all use

the same body structure as the Alchemist, but

are composed of different symbols.

Jaume Plensa with ‘kneeling

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Plensa’s sculptures can be

found all over the

world from Paris to the UK to

Japan

Jaume Plensa Heart of Trees has been awarded the 2012 National Visual Arts Award of Spain

Jaume Plensa Heart of Trees

Jaume Plensa Heart of Trees

Jaume Plensa 'Tolerance‘ Houston, Texas

Bookshop sign Vaux-en Beaujolais, France

Rudyard Kipling (with Ape and Bagheera) by Vanessa Marston

Statue of Jules Verne (1828-1905) by Albert Roze (detail)

Statue of Jules Verne (1828-1905) by Albert RozeAmiens, France

Statue of Jules Verne (1828-1905) by Albert Roze (detail)

Huib Noorlander (Dutch, 1928-2004)Reading girl, 1960Rotterdam, Korte Lijnbaan

Sculpture Lida and Shurik from the film Operation Y- in Krasnodar (Russia)

Sculpture Lida and Shurik from the film Operation Y

Sculpture Lida and Shurik from the film Operation Y

William Holmes McGuffey Memorial at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio

Southlake, USA

Monument of Belarusian Written

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Tineke Willemse Steen (Dutch, 1920-2014)

Victor Heinrich Seifert (Austrian, 1870-1953) Schoolgirl

Victor Heinrich Seifert

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The Marktbrunnen in Mainz is

a renaissance fountain located at

the ″Markt″ (market place). It was crafted in the workshop of the Mainz sculptor

Hans Backoffen

Vancouver School Board

Vancouver School Board

The Pioneer Mother statue on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon

The Pioneer Mother statue on the University of Oregon campus

in Eugene, Oregon

Sculpture "newspaper reader" (1987) by the artist Gordon H. Brown in downtown Iserlohn,

Germany

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Vienna Statue in front of Austrian

Parliament Building

Sound: Pastora Soler - Te despertaré; Espérame

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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanuhttps://plus.google.com/+SandaMichaela

2016