JAUME PLENSA

'Jaume Plensa' (born in 1955 in Barcelona, Catalonia) is an artist and sculptor.
One of his most notable works of art is the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois in the United States and his ''Blake in Gateshead'', a laser beam that on special occasions shines high into the night sky over Gateshead's Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
In the summer of 2007 he participated in the Chicago Public Art exhibit, .

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Biography
Awards
External links

Biography


He studied art in Barcelona, in the "Llotja" School and in the Escola Superior de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi.

Awards



1993: Medaille des Chevaliers des Arts et Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.

1996: Awarded by the Fondation Atelier Calder

1997: National Award of Arts by the Government of Catalonia.

External links



Jaume Plensa, images and biography (Galerie Lelong)

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