Jaume Plensa
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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, Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet. In 2007 he participated in the Big Art Project, a Channel 4 documentary television series about public art for which he was commissioned to create a new work in St Helens, Merseyside, North-West England.
[edit] Biography
He studied art in Barcelona, in the "Llotja" School and in the Escola Superior de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi.
[edit] 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.
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