Jaume Plensa at Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona

As of December 1st, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona presents a show dedicated to the work of Jaueme Plensa (Barcelona, 1955). The exhibition, curated by Ferran Barenblit will include works made from 1980 to date, with the purpose of creating a dialogue between works that represent the human figure and abstract works.This tension runs through all of his work, a corpus that highlights the strength of binomials such as weightless/compact, light/dark, silence/sound, spirit/matter and life/death. This solo exhibition of Jaume Plensa at MACBA offers a broad overview of the work of one of the Catalan sculptors with the widest international profile. Awarded the National Visual Arts Prize of the Generalitat (1997), the Velazquez Prize for Visual Arts of the Ministry of Education and Culture (2013) and the City of Barcelona Prize (2015), among others, he is recognised worldwide for his public works in cities such as Chicago, London, Montreal, Nice, Tokyo, Toronto and Vancouver. Twenty-two years since his last museum exhibition in Barcelona (Fundació Joan Miró, 1996), Plensa's work will be seen in a museum in the city. In parallel, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid will present a new project by the artist at the Palacio de Cristal during the same dates. The exhibition will be open until April 22, 2019.