Vente: 525 / Evening Sale 10 décembre 2021 à Munich Lot 228

 

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Jaume Plensa
Awilda's Frozen Dream, 2015.
Murano -
Estimation:
€ 50,000 / $ 54,000
Résultat:
€ 125,000 / $ 135,000

( frais d'adjudication compris)
Awilda's Frozen Dream. 2015.
Murano - .
One of 8 copies. Height: 53 cm (20.8 in).
Executed by the glass manufactory Berengo Studio, Murano, and published by Glasstress, Venice.
• For the first time offered on the international auction market.
• The perfect unity of the traditional craft of glass making and innovative positions of contemporary art.
• Plensa's play with opposites: optical lightness and haptical heaviness.
• Sculptures by the Spanish artist Jaume Plensa are on public dislay around the world, among them at the Rockefeller Center New York and the Salzburg University
.

Accompanied by a certificate issued by the Berengo Studio, Murano.

PROVENANCE: Berengo Studio, Murano.
Private collection Berlin.

"Normally, when I am dreaming about a piece, its material is already determined and it is rare for me to diverge from this path. If I am working with a new material I have to explore it, to try to understand it, to get inside its memory [..]. The material is a vehicle that carries an idea; it does not create meaning."
Jaume Plensa, 2016



The Catalan artist Jaume Plensa, born in 1955, is one of the most important contemporary sculptors, his mostly large-size sculptures can be found in public spaces around the world. He continued his art studies, which he had begun in Barcelona, at the Henry Moore Foundation in England and at the Alexander Calder Studio. His first solo exhibition was shown at the Fundació Joan Miró in his hometown Barcelona in in 1980. Since 1990 he has increasingly devoted himself to outdoor projects in which he repeatedly succeeds in creating works that are both spectacular and poetic. Due to his presence in public space, he is known to a wider public. He allows observers to experience his artworks free from museum constraints and to become an interactive part. The motif of the portrait head is at the core of his creation. Sitters for his portraits of young girls, which he executes in different materials, belong to different ethnic groups and come from his personal environment. Each work in this series, which he began in 2009, shows a girl between the age of eight and fifteen and embodies the transition from girl to woman. He scans, processes and alienates the shape of their heads on a computer. The shape of the face is laterally compressed and thus extremely elongated so that the faces lose their individual features and thuis become abstract. Plensa creates iconic images of timeless dignity. His heads have a monumental grace, a majesty that is reminiscent of ancient statues and monuments of bygone civilizations. Plensa's portrait heads always have their eyes closed, which adds a certain spirituality, an introvert aura full of contemplative calm. Despite their reclusiveness, the works have an extremely strong presence and a striking meditative power. While this vehement rejection of making contact with the outside world can be quite unsettling for the observer, it is exactly what Plensa aims to achieve: evoking a feeling of uneasiness and provoking thought. "Awilda's Frozen Dream" is a striking example of Jaume Plensa's iconic series of human heads. The monumental 5 meter tall version adorns the campus of the Law School at the University of Salzburg. While it is the monumentality that makes Jaume Plensa‘s outdoot sculptures so special, it is the play of materiality that makes "Awilda's Frozen Dream" so special. The use of glass gives the sculpture a light and translucent appeal, as if formed from fog, while in fact it quite massive and heavy. Despite all the reminiscence of traditional forms, his heads look like surreal holograms from a distant future. [SM]



228
Jaume Plensa
Awilda's Frozen Dream, 2015.
Murano -
Estimation:
€ 50,000 / $ 54,000
Résultat:
€ 125,000 / $ 135,000

( frais d'adjudication compris)